Twice in the last month I experienced someone else's emotions. I suddenly felt an emotion that didn’t feel organic to the situation at hand

Some pain is so great that it's necessary to hold onto it to give it the significance it deserves. Anything short of that trivializes it.

I was on a path where I was receptive and open. When one is in that state, one never knows the form the teacher will take.

The seventh and last valley of Attar is the Valley of Deprivation and Death. This is the valley of forgetting all.

The love in this valley goes beyond love of self, love of other. I am in love but I do not know with whom.

In this valley, there is no longer a difference from one another. When duality disappears, unity is found. The shadow is lost in sun.

Sometimes I say something that others don’t like. And they respond in negative ways. In the past, I would get defensive, call them names.

I’ve been tested. I've done really hard things. I have also faced moral challenges, some of which I've failed. What wisdom have I found?

The Valley of Understanding is where all worldly wisdom is useless. Through this valley seekers will find wisdom in all things.

The second valley in The Conference of the Birds is the Valley of Love where reason is abandoned. It's about fire, about sacrifice.

The first valley is about casting aside dogma and belief. What beliefs must I cast aside? Attar says, “Bread is always a need of the hungry"

Whenever I am asked to do something when I would rather be doing something else, I think of the dog keeper.