"Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who won't risk the ocean." - Rumi, was an amazing Sufi Poet & Mystic.
When I read the above quote this morning, I thought, this is just where I am. The sentence that jumped out at me was "No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor."
At first I thought it meant that we didn't know whether we would fail or succeed, but then I read again, and this is what I understood:
I am loading my ship with Spiritual Truth. Knowing this, I am setting sail out into the unknown...the mystery. I am letting go of everything that I knew before. Will I sink or reach the harbor? In other words will my vessel of Truth stay firm or sink at the first challenge. It's like deciding you believe you can defy gravity, and then after stepping off a ledge, realizing you really don't.
The Truth is there is no Harbor to reach. We carry the Harbor with us. The more I let go of the outside world, and the deeper I go within, trust becomes my way of being. And if I feel the tug under, or that sinking feeling, that's the time to let go again.
There's no turning back to shore once I am aware. I am willing to risk the ocean. I can never fail. There is no failure in the Mind of God, only Divine Evolution.
Once we've loaded up our ships with Truth and set sail, we die to the old and are birthed to the new. The earth isn't flat and there is no horizon so the sailing must be eternal.
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