Remember the Tradition as a Source of Strength
One form of remembering is to remember that we have given our selves to a tradition and that The Tradition is a source of energy and strength. Of course, in English “tradition” can mean as a little as “accepted practice.” But here we mean something sacred, and beyond forms--a guiding, protecting power in the Unseen.
Mevlana kept a journal which was never published, but parts of which are available to us. One day he made this entry: “I came home exhausted. I couldn’t lift up my own head, and I asked myself, ‘What is the point of all this?’ I work like a donkey, and at night I am dead tired. What is the point?” The next entry into his journal: “The sun rises in the morning.”
We have the responsibility to stand on our own feet and take responsibility, and we must never forget this. God is not responsible; we are. Sometimes we may have to exhaust ourselves. At the same time, we are held by the Tradition we have sincerely given ourselves to.