When we face the worst in any situation, we grow!

"The person who is in harmony with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted." Hazrat Inayat Khan

When we face the worst in any situation, we grow.

When circumstances reach a critical point, we can find the best in us.Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and you will understand that everything in life has a purpose.

In order to go beyond yourself, it is necessary to learn to know yourself. If you don't know who you really are, how could you transform?I seek peace in the early mornings as I walk.Peace is found in ourselves in the same place where agitation and suffering are found. Peace is not found in a forest or on a mountain top and cannot be given to us by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, there you can also find relief from suffering.One murky morning last week, frantic movement caught my eye. On the saturated ground, something was fluttering and flopping. The timing of the desperate bursts spoke of a living creature in distress. Even though I felt afraid, I went over to see. A small, brown bird had entangled itself in a black net with the consistency of chicken wire. As I watched, the wild thing struggled in spasms, its claws bound, its wings displaced. Every part of it looked dislocated or broken. Still, it fought.I found myself raising the black net, shaking the mesh as I reeled it in. Only when I lifted the net did the bird find its voice. Threatened by a giant, blunt-beaked predator, the sparrow screamed an alarm that could have alerted an immense flock. The more the bird fluttered, the more entrapped it seemed, but I kept gathering the net. If I had to, I would have chewed through the loops to set the sparrow free. With a few inches to go, I shook the net hard, and the bird shot off, still able to fly.

“That’s it,” I said. “There you go.”

I walked on.

I wondered, though, about how and why I had identified so intensely with that bird. In a global pandemic, the answer was obvious. Having lost friends, family, jobs, and the life we knew, 7.8 billion of us on this planet feel trapped. We fear for our lives, and we can’t fly.

In this time , it encourages me that the instinctive bonds among living creatures still hold. The link between “motion” and “emotion” is more than verbal, and the desperate fluttering of a trapped bird screams, “Help me! I’m alive!”

Instincts older than humanity may save humans as long as we respect all of life!