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.
... Mathnawi II: 1552; 1554, Mevlana Rumi
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the blending of sorrow and joy reminds me of the fragility of life, and of my essential relationship with the One through hardship or success...
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