"Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
Be quick and spare no effort of your wings."
~Jalaluddin Rumi~

It has been said that there is no greater education than matriculating through the “University of Hard Knocks.” Many, who have passed through the crucible of suffering will acknowledge that they have found themselves infinitely better for the experience—bitter though it may have been.

I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chatted all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne’er a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!
 ( Robert Browning Hamilton)
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"Whenever you believe you possess security, identify the sources of your confidence.
 They might consist of a comfortable family life, or perhaps in the fact that all is presently going well in general.
If any source changes or be lost, no security exists in them, for there will be worrying sense of a possible upset in your routines.
The only true source of security is in your own oneness with yourself and with The Almighty."

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