May 24 2017
A Note about the Manchester Bombing
My heart breaks for the people of Manchester traumatized by the recent bombing there.
Every time a terrible incident like this happens, whether it occurs in the west, or Turkey, India, Pakistan, wherever, I always want to make a statement. But it is easy to sound bland or ineffective or, worse, hypocritical.
I won’t try to suggest simplistic solutions, political or spiritual. What it absolutely does require is an engaged heart, courage, rather than fear, and clear seeing.
Timelines are shifting
So fast
Now
Simultaneously…
High Heart
Knows as
To where to Focus
Attention…
“Don’t try to control life.
Witness it.”
Witness it…,indeed.
And Rumi so beautifully said:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”