Two Wings to Fly by Rumi

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one." ~ Rumi from Rumi: Daylight

Wow. Love that!

That's worth a re-read: "God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."

Ever notice how we can bounce back and forth from one idea to its opposite? Equally convinced one was the right path/truth for us at the time?

Emerson shares some amazing wisdom on this as well. In his brilliant essay Self-Reliance (which I've read dozens of times and have available for free in the members' section), he says:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

So, let's not beat ourselves up when we find yourself exploring different perspectives. Remember that God turns us from one feeling to another so that we may have two wings to fly and not one!!!

Let's see our evolving preferences as simply the shaping of the beautiful wings that will continue to lift our consciousness higher and higher!

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