The grapes of my body can only become wine

After the winemaker tramples me.

I surrender my spirit like grapes to his trampling

So my innermost heart can blaze and dance with joy.

Although the grapes go on weeping blood and sobbing,

“I cannot bear any more anguish, any more cruelty!”

The trampler stuffs cotton in his ears: “I am not

     working in ignorance.

You can deny me if you want, you have every excuse,

But it is I who am the Master of this Work.

And when through my Passion you reach Perfection,

You will never be done praising my name.”          Rumi

The path to God is littered with the bones of those who did not remember Who they were looking for, and how great beyond all concepts and imagining God always is.  Rumi

Jesus said to John, “You must have become very forgetful of God’s graces and tendernesses to weep so much.”

If you live according to the Tao, nothing can harm you.  Realizing this, there is nothing to fear.  There is only constant monitoring of self to ensure that one stays on the path.  Tao Te Ching.