Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.
Those who love the water of pleasure and make it their devotion are
cheated with this reversal.
The trickery goes further.
The voice of the fire tells the truth saying, I am not fire. I am
fountainhead. Come into me and don’t mind the sparks.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks
“I love that poem because that’s what I think synchronicity and flow are pointing us to when we can dive into and trust that what comes to us in life is what we need in order to grow and evolve and heal ourselves. That’s the fire, right? Those are the sparks. Don’t mind the spark; don’t mind the hurt that comes from the conversations you need to have in your life in order to free yourself from your past woundings. When we go for the water of pleasure, the comfort, you know it doesn’t give us the comfort we want. But when we go to the fire of healing it leads us to that sort of peacefulness.”
Sky Nelson-Isaacs, author of Living in Flow:
The Science of Synchronicity and
How Your Choices Shape Your World
