In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.
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