My sweet companion Mocha has been diagnosed with a condition that will ultimately paralyze her back legs. I am overwhelmed with pain and grief. I am not being able to carry this pain with joy.
“Let go of any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain.
You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.”
-Sufi master Pir Vilayat Khan