“As we work on taking personal responsibility for our behaviour, confront our own dysfunctional patterns and grieve our losses, we are taking steps toward living at an altitude that transcends the level of the petty, the inane and the insipid. We disconnect from the narcissism of popular culture. We do not take things anywhere near as personally as we did before. We keep our pride in check and recognise we are not the centre of the universe. We heal our wounds before we inflict them on others. We recognise that our capacity to harm and persecute others is equal to our capacity to be victimized by others. We begin to crave the wisdom of the ancients and of our elders – recognising that perennial truths never die and will always satisfy a seekers soul. But, the price of admission to living and breathing at this altitude is high, very, very, high. The price of admission is a suffering which is transmuted into the courage that only faith can produce – the courage to be fully human. Otherwise suffering just leads to more suffering, whether in the form of a victim or persecutor – and the line between these two roles can be ever so thin.”
Abdul Saad, clinical psychologist at Vital Minds Psychology, Sidney Australia
Breathings 