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It is with delight and great pleasure that I present to you our guest director for this issue of The Source. Please extend a very warm Al Ain welcome by reading and sharing these profound words of wisdom penned straight from the heart! - Farid.
THE MIRROR Those sublime moments of elation and gratitude. Those excruciating moments of despair and agony. Those spectacular moments of conviction and faith. Those dreadful moments of misgiving and incredulity. Those ecstatic moments of achievement and satisfaction. Those heart-rending moments of disappointment and loss. “I don't know where I am. At times I plunge to the bottom of the sea, at times, rise up like the Sun.” I am a teacher. A teacher is a learner. I teach what I have learned. I have learned lessons from mirrors. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” The rubbings and irritations of my life are my opportunity for refinement, my invitation to evolve and advance. But, my potential for evolution is proportionate to my passion for the me-moment; it is in embracing the moment with honesty, in seeing myself correctly and clearly, in allowing the nuisance and the niggling of the dawning me-moment to polish and refine me. I have to choose to evolve. “Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.” I see as I am. This is the fundamental lesson and the teacher. The mirror proffers my very own reflection in that which I see. Everything and everyone I see is a vivid reflection of who and what and how and why I am. I see myself in you. How I see is the problem, not what or whom I see. It is precisely those me-in-you-moments [the good, the bad, and the ugly] that allow me to be polished, that allow my mirror to more clearly reflect the potential-me, the becoming-me. You are the mirror that allows me to see myself. “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his Heart - Wikiquote, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more…” I emerge polished, seen, known, and found if I embrace the me-in-you-moment. This is the most profound conquest. “The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”
Ahmad Barnard Quotations by Rumi
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