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“‏ما كان مقدرا لك سيأتيك ولو كان بين جبلين
What is meant for you, will reach you even if it is beneath two mountains.

وما لم يكن مقدرا لك لن يأتيك ولو كان بين شفتيك

And what isn’t meant for you, won’t reach you even if it is between your two lips.”

            In Your Life: A Softer Kind of Awareness

Certain eye exercises can teach people how to relax their vision
through “soft focus.” Because unhealthy energy is hard, rigid, and
stuck, it’s helpful to learn how to have “soft awareness.” I don’t mean a
woozy blissfulness, but a state of mind that is open, relaxed, and
receptive. In that state, you give yourself the best opportunity to flow
with life instead of putting up barriers and resistance.
  As
regards eyesight, hard focus is specific and particular. You take aim,
so to speak, and keep and object in your sights. Soft focus widens the
field of vision. Instead of isolating one tree, you see the whole
forest.  […]  A tightly focused mind becomes narrow and linear if it
can’t expand.
  […]
  Soft focus sees the mind as a whole. You
view thinking as if on a wide screen, accepting that any possible
thought can come along. Instead of being a problem, the endless flow of
thought becomes the fertile ground of change. The flood cannot be tamed.
Nor should we want it to be, because the glory of the mind is that it
draws from a thousand springs. Every mental event is temporary: it
exists in the moment and then vanishes. Yet, strangely enough, the
present moment is connected to eternity, because the present is the only
time that is constantly renewed.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
from ‘Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You’, (pg. 68-69); published in 2009.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Rumi