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Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan


October
The Bowl of Saki
Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan


 

1

Each soul's attainment is according to its evolution.

2

It always means that you must sacrifice something very dear to you when His call comes.

3

Renunciation is always for a purpose:
it is to kindle the soul that nothing may hold it back from God;
but when it is kindled the life of renunciation is not necessary.

4

There are those who are like a lighted candle; they can light other candles.
But the other candles must be of wax; if they are of steel the cannot be lighted.

5

There is no greater Scripture than nature, for nature is life itself.

6

Wisdom can only be learned gradually,
and every soul is not ready to receive or to understand the complexity of the purpose of life.

7

It is a very high stage on the path of love
whet a man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

8

Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of sparkling water.

9

The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality.

10

If you seek the good in every soul you will always find it,
for God is in all things; still more He is in all beings.

11

The knowledge of God is beyond man's reason,
the secret of God is hidden in the knowledge of unity.

12

Seek Him in all souls, good or bad, wise and foolish, attractive and unattractive;
in the depths of each there is God.

13

When in ourselves there is inharmony, how can we spread harmony ?

14

The innermost being of man is the real being of God.

15

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

16

By loving, forgiving and serving,
it is possible for your whole life to become one single vision of the Sublime Beauty of God.

17

Mysticism to the mystic is both science and religion.

18

The principles of mysticism rise from the heart of man;
they are learned by intuition and proved by reason.

19

Your work in life must be your religion, whatever your occupation may be.

20

The true joy of every soul is in the realization the Divine Spirit,
and the absence of realization keeps the soul in despair.

21

Beyond the narrow barriers of race and creed can all unite, because we all belong to one God.

22

All forms of worship or prayer must draw man closer to God.

23

When man is separated from God in his thought, his belief is of no use, his worship is of  little use.

24

The source of the realization of truth is within man, he himself is the object of his realization.

25

True self-denial is losing one's self in God.

26

The slightest mistake, if not corrected, will it time turn into the greatest folly;
just as a small tear in a garment enlarges, if not mended.

27

According to his evolution man knows the truth;
and the more he knows, the more he finds there is to know.

28

The man filled with the knowledge of names and forms has no capacity for the knowledge truth.

29

Man mistakes when he begins to cultivate the heart by wanting to sow the seed himself,
instead of leaving the sowing to God.

30

The outlet of the love impulse spreads out man’s influence,
and the control of the love impulse deepens man's personality.

31

Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight,
and it is the breaking of these clouds - in other words purity of heart -
that gives the capacity for the knowledge of God to rise.

 

 

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