Spending time with Will's daughter's lately has really made me think of this. I haven't really understood this until recently...

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was 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.
Pir Vilayat Khan


Found on the Bay Area Young Adult Sangha
bayas.info/quotations.php