For many, the journey through life includes tough traumatizing patches along the way that can shake the core of individuals and their identity. Traumas can change the DNA of who we are, leave us broken and entrapped in a life sentence of self confinement with no meaningful connection to ourselves or others. Traumas can crash the wings of physical and mental freedom for those who experience and survive the severity of sudden unwelcome interruptions in their daily life…

Once my Mathnawi teacher told me to be aware of how a foolish companion could cause me to fall and not succeed in the most crucial moments of life. He urged that it would be the best to stay away from such a person…

The foundation of our assumptions lead us in a direction. In Rumi’s teachings, there are two directions, the direction toward knowing (light) or the direction toward ignorance (absence of light)— a direction toward the Truth and a direction away from the Truth. We face situations daily and pick one of these choices.

For too long we have lived with a thorn in our hearts and vision pretending we know how to manage the life entrusted to us. For too long we have been ignoring the sorrows that are accumulating and we have become numb in our witnessing. We need experts who can teach us how to remove this thorn from our hearts and see who we have become.