If you ask people what’s missing from their lives, you’ll get a litany of what’s not happening for them. What you won’t hear is an understanding of why that is.
What's Missing In Your Life?
Life Experiences
The Tale of the Sands
As with all Sufi teachings, this allegorical story is made to illustrate some aspect of our journey towards Oneness. It speaks to the trials and struggles we all face.
GIVING LOVE
Being able to love freely and openly is a great concept, but unfortunately it’s not something we experience very often. And although people do try, the love we mostly see is a pretty watered down version of the real thing. We want to love unconditionally, but we just seem unable to do it. Yet our capacity to love is incredible, so what gets in the way?
UNDERSTANDING LIFE
After thousands of years of living experience and having exceptional teachers like Christ, Moses, Lau Tsu, Buddha, and the many gurus of India, we are still struggling to answer the question of exactly what we are doing here. We have made progress over the millennia, but we still have a ways to go.
Self-Criticism
Franz Kafka, the great patron-martyr of self-criticism, captured the situation perfectly when he wrote: “There’s only one thing certain. That is one’s own inadequacy.”