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Rumi and the Dodge Dart
The Divine is everywhere, even in your vehicle identification #
One of the amazing things about life is that every moment has contained within it the potential to spark an awakening — a meaningful, memorable, life-changing insight about ourselves.
And to make things even more interesting, we never know when these surprise moments will occur and what impact they will have on us.
Which brings me to the following story — a kind of “as above, so below” moment back in Denver, Colorado in 1979 — something timeless I learned that I am still plumbing the depths of (even if, technically speaking, I’m not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition).
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” — Rumi
Back then, having taken a vow of renunciation and living in one of Prem Rawat’s ashrams, I was (at least in my own mind) on the high road to happiness, having left “the world” behind like a too heavy bag of rocks.
My day job at that time? Being the Community Coordinator of Prem’s Denver operations — a…
