There's Something About Mira

by Sonali Dev

We won’t take jewels and land to our grave, but our souls will carry the choices we made and how we lived to the next life.

Why do you think humans need to use all these scales to gauge our worth when we all drop onto the earth from a birth canal in exactly the same state and return to dirt that crumbles beneath our feet and feeds the roots of plants in exactly the same way too? How can something as transient as money define our equality? Our opportunities, yes. Our possessions definitely, but certainly not how equal we are in any sense that is human. How can there be equality and inequality between things that are one and the same?

“Do you always take responsibility for everything that goes wrong in the world? There are several wars going on right now that no one wants to take blame for. They might need you.”

“Funny you say that. It’s quite the opposite, actually. I’m usually accused of not taking responsibility for my own life.” “Really? I was getting a more hyperresponsible vibe.”

“I think I might actually be happy,” Rumi says. “It’s not all the time. God knows, I’m not that evolved. But when I am, I just am, and it’s so much simpler than I thought it would be.”

“It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them.

“When you’re true to yourself, even when something hurts, it feels good. When you’re betraying yourself, even when something is supposed to feel good, it hurts.”

“Duct tape and rings, that totally makes sense,” Rumi says. “If you’re into bondage.”