‘this to shall pass’
"lesson on presence and the practice of inner coherence"
This Too Shall Pass… Don't Rush It.
Whenever life became overwhelming, whether through grief, uncertainty, joy, or overload of great success, my favorite Persian poet Rumi would gently remind himself:
"This too shall pass."
Most people hear those words as comfort, but I hear them as wisdom. Not because pain disappears, but because we know that nothing in our ever changing life is meant to become our permanent identity. What we do is that we often mistake temporary emotional weather for permanent truth, for example an anxious morning becomes:
"I am stressed."
A difficult season becomes:
"My life is falling apart."
A relationship ending becomes
‘the end of the world’ or "I have failed."
A business challenge becomes:
"I'm not enough."
Without realizing it, we build identities around passing emotional states.
This is where suffering quietly starts.
The Difference Between Passing Through and Getting Stuck
Every emotion is movement.
The word emotion itself comes from the Latin emovere, which means to move through. Yet most of us have learned two opposite strategies, we either suppress what feels uncomfortable or we become consumed by it. Neither creates freedom. Emotional integration offers a third path. It teaches us to become the compassionate observer instead of the overwhelmed participant. To sit with fear without becoming fear.
To experience sadness without believing we are broken. To allow uncertainty without abandoning ourselves. When we stop resisting an emotion, it often moves far more
quickly than when we try to escape it.
Within my work through my method The Architecture of Inner Coherence™, I often remind clients that overwhelm is rarely created by the event itself, it is created by the internal fragmentation that follows.
One part of us wants certainty.
Another wants control.
Another wants to be perfect.
And another is desperately trying to protect us from disappointment.
When these parts begin pulling in different directions, the nervous system loses coherence. The body tightens. The mind races. The heart closes. Our work is not to eliminate emotion, but to restore relationship with ourselves. As coherence returns, clarity follows naturally. Not because life suddenly becomes easier, but because we become steadier within it. "This too shall pass" is not a permission to dismiss what you feel. It is our permission not to cling to it. Even the most overwhelming chapter eventually becomes part of our wisdom.
My suggestion for you:
Stop demanding that life feels different in this moment, and notice how something remarkable happens: you begin to meet yourself, your real you, not the version performing
and not the version surviving. But the one quietly waiting underneath every layer of protection. Believe it or not, that is where peace lives, not in controlling circumstances, but in cultivating inner coherence that remains steady while circumstances continue to change.
I feel that that is what Rumi understood all along.
Everything passes. Love deepens. Grief softens. Fear loosens. Success evolves. Identity transforms.
Only your true essence remains.
And perhaps that is the deepest invitation:
Don't rush for this moment to pass.
Become the person who can remain beautifully present while it does.
May you trust your own rhythm,
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