The Call

I believe the challenges of our lives are wake up calls from our deeper dimensional Self, a call to engage in life more authentically, more deeply, more passionately and to wake up to who we are in our more complete structure. My work offers the guidance to listen to that call and to follow it to its source. We are more than a problem to be solved or a diagnosis to be remedied. We are a mystery to be known and to be manifested.

THE GUEST HOUSE

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

– Jula al-Din Rumi, 13th century Persian Poet

Translation by Coleman Barks