We are born with a capacity to dance together but not with the necessary training. We have to learn the dance steps and practice until we move with ease and grace. The joy in it requires work. Some of us have been damaged physically or in our self-confidence, and we will have to practice dancing more than others. Some of us have been so damaged we

Stay together, friends. Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made Of being awake. Rumi

The tenth-century Indian mystic and philosopher Abhinavagupta said to his students, ‘Listen carefully. Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive.’