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Whether people realize it or not, the world is currently experiencing a huge collective “dark night of the soul.”

We have reached a critical turning point and there is no going back.

First, we had the pandemic. Now, climate change, wars, genocides, corrupted systems, the cost of living crisis, left versus right debates, and end-stage capitalism (and more) have all come up to the forefront for everyone (who is willing) to see and witness.

Unfortunately, this is a necessary and deeply painful process, as it is actually a result of everything that has been accumulating within our psyches (that is not based in love) being reflected in the outer world. And I’m talking generations and generations of it. Everything is coming up and out to be processed, purged, and healed. This is the only way the outer world will heal.

There is no more room for greed, pride, ego, narcissism, racism, sexism, lies, manipulation, nationalism, hatred, and negative belief systems. When we do not heal what is within us, it is not only us that suffers but the world around us. People who are rooted in love do not go around hurting and taking advantage of others. This says a lot about our current world leaders.

Hard times often make us reflect deeply on our lives and the general state of the world. We are pretty much forced to go inwards and look at what isn’t serving us anymore. Of course things are looking pretty bleak right now. More people than ever are struggling financially; we are angry with our world leaders and how they are getting away with hideous crimes. This can leave us feeling really powerless in the grand scheme of things.

If you ask me do I see any light at the end of this tunnel, I do. I will say it a thousand times. I do. I do. I do.

I know that love is going to win because love always wins. There is not a more powerful force than love.

Aristotle wrote it best: “Evil destroys even itself.”

We might think that there is not much we can do, but this is not true. We are so much more powerful than we think.

Now more than ever, we must surround ourselves with people who are good for our minds and spirits. We need to surround ourselves with people who care and are positive-minded. We need to look within ourselves and heal anything that isn’t helping us grow and thrive. We need to love and remove anything that is blocking us from moving in love. We need to move out of victim mode and stop believing that checking a box next to somebody’s name is going to change our lives for better in any way. We need to stop believing that external forces are more powerful than what we have inside of us. We need to learn about the power of our thoughts, the law of attraction, and change any scarcity and poverty mindsets within us. We need to learn about the energetics of money. We need unlearn all the negative and toxic programming society has imposed upon us. We need to be inspired by people who are doing acts of goodness and who have done in the past.

I have always been inspired by the mystic and poet Rumi and as of lately have been reading a lot of his works. Today, I’m sharing 20 quotes by Rumi that inspire hope within me and remind me that I am a powerful being, even in the hardest of times.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

1. “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

2. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

3. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

4. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

5. “Yesterday I was so clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

6. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”

7. “I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.”

8. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

9. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

10. “The cure for the pain is in the pain.”

11. “When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.”

12. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

13. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”

14. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.”

15. “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.”

16. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

17. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

18. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

19. “Let yourself become living poetry.”

20. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

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