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Turn your face to the sun,
and the shadows fall behind you.
and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori proverb
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Evolution & Truth
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every person's desire is according to his evolution. That for which he is ready is desirable for him. Milk is a desirable food for the infant, other foods for the grown-up person. Every stage in life has its own appropriate and desirable things.
from http://wahiduddin.
When one realizes the ultimate truth, one comes to understand that one single underlying current to which all the different religions, philosophies and faiths are attached. These are all only different expressions of the same truth, and it is the absence of that knowledge which causes all to be divided into so many different sects and religions.
According to his evolution, man knows truth.
Bowl of Saki, March 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every person's desire is according to his evolution. That for which he is ready is desirable for him. Milk is a desirable food for the infant, other foods for the grown-up person. Every stage in life has its own appropriate and desirable things.
from http://wahiduddin.
When one realizes the ultimate truth, one comes to understand that one single underlying current to which all the different religions, philosophies and faiths are attached. These are all only different expressions of the same truth, and it is the absence of that knowledge which causes all to be divided into so many different sects and religions.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Alchemy of Happiness
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MAN'S attitude is the secret of life, for it is upon man's attitude that success and failure depend. Both man's rise and fall depend upon his attitude. By attitude I mean that impulse which is like a battery behind the mechanism of thought. It is not man's thought which is man's attitude; it is something behind man's thought pushing it to the fore; and according to the strength of that impulse the thought becomes realized. Behind every word one speaks, the attitude is the most important factor in bringing what one says to its successful accomplishment.
There are three different aspects of this subject which one should observe. One aspect is one's attitude towards oneself: whether one treats oneself as a friend or as an enemy, whether one is in harmony with oneself or in disharmony.
Not everyone is in harmony with himself, and not everyone treats himself as a friend, although he may think so. For man is generally his own enemy. He does not know it, but he proves it in his doings.
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Volume VI - The Alchemy of Happiness
THE SECRET OF LIFE
There are three different aspects of this subject which one should observe. One aspect is one's attitude towards oneself: whether one treats oneself as a friend or as an enemy, whether one is in harmony with oneself or in disharmony.
Not everyone is in harmony with himself, and not everyone treats himself as a friend, although he may think so. For man is generally his own enemy. He does not know it, but he proves it in his doings.
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Teacher
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
According to the Sufi point of view there is only one teacher, and that teacher is God Himself. No man can teach another man. All one can do for another is to give him one's own experience in order to help him to be successful. For instance if a person happens to know a road, he can tell another man that it is the road which leads to the place he wishes to find. The work of the spiritual teacher is like the work of Cupid. The work of Cupid is to bring two souls together. And so is the work of the spiritual teacher: to bring together the soul and God. But what is taught to the one who seeks after truth? Nothing is taught. He is only shown how he should learn from God. For no man can ever teach spirituality. It is God alone who teaches it. And how is it learned? When these ears which are open outwardly are closed to the outside world and focused upon the heart within, then instead of hearing all that comes from the outer life one begins to hear the words within. Thus if one were to define what meditation is, that also is an attitude: the right attitude towards God. The attitude should first be to seek God within. And, after seeking God within, then to see God outside.
from http://wahiduddin.
There is one Teacher, God Himself; we are all His pupils.
Bowl of Saki, March 22, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
According to the Sufi point of view there is only one teacher, and that teacher is God Himself. No man can teach another man. All one can do for another is to give him one's own experience in order to help him to be successful. For instance if a person happens to know a road, he can tell another man that it is the road which leads to the place he wishes to find. The work of the spiritual teacher is like the work of Cupid. The work of Cupid is to bring two souls together. And so is the work of the spiritual teacher: to bring together the soul and God. But what is taught to the one who seeks after truth? Nothing is taught. He is only shown how he should learn from God. For no man can ever teach spirituality. It is God alone who teaches it. And how is it learned? When these ears which are open outwardly are closed to the outside world and focused upon the heart within, then instead of hearing all that comes from the outer life one begins to hear the words within. Thus if one were to define what meditation is, that also is an attitude: the right attitude towards God. The attitude should first be to seek God within. And, after seeking God within, then to see God outside.
from http://wahiduddin.
Circumstances
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
Monday, March 26, 2012
Song
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You learn a lot about people
when you listen to the songs that mean something to them.
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My songs have no words, only music that transports me to the heavens above.
Often from the depths below. Transcendence, I hope. Catherine Todd
Time
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"Take all the time you need to heal emotionally.
Moving on doesn't take a day,
it takes lots of little steps
to be able to break free of your broken self."
Thresca
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Man is closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean.
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Man is closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean.
Bowl of Saki, March 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
The innermost being of man is the real being of God; man is always linked with God. If he could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in his own soul that he finds communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light. In that way we are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they have their being.
from http://wahiduddin.
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
One day Inayat was praying on the roof of the house, offering his prayers and he thought to himself that there had not been an answer yet to all the prayers he had offered to God and he did not know where God was to hear his prayers and he could not reconcile himself to going on praying to the God whom he knew not. He went fearlessly to his father and said: "I do not think I will continue my prayers any longer, for it does not fit in with my reason. I do not know how I can go on praying to a God I do not know." His father, taken aback, did not become cross lest he might turn Inayat's beliefs sour by forcing them upon him without satisfying his reason and he was glad on the other hand to see that, although it was irreverent on the child's part, yet it was frank, and he knew that the lad really hungered after Truth and was ready to learn now, what many could not learn in their whole life.
He said to him: "God is in you and you are in God. As the bubble is in the ocean and the bubble is a part of the ocean and yet not separate from the ocean. For a moment it has appeared as a bubble, then it will return to that from which it has risen. So is the relation between man and God. The Prophet has said that God is closer to you than the jugular vein, which in reality means that your own body is farther from you than God is. If this be rightly interpreted, it will mean that God is the very depth of your own being." This moment to Inayat was his very great initiation, as if a switch had turned in him, and from that moment onward his whole life Inayat busied himself, and his whole being became engaged in witnessing in life what he knew and believed, by this one great Truth.
from http://wahiduddin.
The innermost being of man is the real being of God; man is always linked with God. If he could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in his own soul that he finds communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light. In that way we are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they have their being.
from http://wahiduddin.
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
One day Inayat was praying on the roof of the house, offering his prayers and he thought to himself that there had not been an answer yet to all the prayers he had offered to God and he did not know where God was to hear his prayers and he could not reconcile himself to going on praying to the God whom he knew not. He went fearlessly to his father and said: "I do not think I will continue my prayers any longer, for it does not fit in with my reason. I do not know how I can go on praying to a God I do not know." His father, taken aback, did not become cross lest he might turn Inayat's beliefs sour by forcing them upon him without satisfying his reason and he was glad on the other hand to see that, although it was irreverent on the child's part, yet it was frank, and he knew that the lad really hungered after Truth and was ready to learn now, what many could not learn in their whole life.
He said to him: "God is in you and you are in God. As the bubble is in the ocean and the bubble is a part of the ocean and yet not separate from the ocean. For a moment it has appeared as a bubble, then it will return to that from which it has risen. So is the relation between man and God. The Prophet has said that God is closer to you than the jugular vein, which in reality means that your own body is farther from you than God is. If this be rightly interpreted, it will mean that God is the very depth of your own being." This moment to Inayat was his very great initiation, as if a switch had turned in him, and from that moment onward his whole life Inayat busied himself, and his whole being became engaged in witnessing in life what he knew and believed, by this one great Truth.
from http://wahiduddin.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Earthly Knowledge & Truth
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All earthly knowledge is as
a cloud covering the sun.
Bowl of Saki, March 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Truth is the very self of man.
Truth is the divine element in man.
Truth is every soul's seeking.
Therefore as soon as the clouds of illusion are scattered, that which man now begins to see is nothing but the truth which has been there all the time. He finds that the truth was never absent; it was only covered by clouds of illusion.
~~~ "Supplementary papers, Philosophy V", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
~~~ "Supplementary papers, Philosophy V", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Man brings unhappiness upon himself by holding in his hands the clouds of bad impressions, which fall as a shadow upon his soul. Once a person is able to clear from his mind, by whatever process, the undesirable impressions, a new power begins to spring from his heart. This opens a way before him to accomplish all he wishes, attracting to him all he requires, clearing his path of all obstacles, and making his atmosphere clear, for him to live and move and to accomplish all he wishes to accomplish.
from http://wahiduddin.
Tags: truth, earthly knowledge, soul seeking, self of man, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Bowl of Saki,
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Seasons
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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Love
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Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought,
cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked.
It is available only in one rare form:
as the natural response
of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked.
It is available only in one rare form:
as the natural response
of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
Eknath Easwaran
Words to Live By
Author of Seeing With the Eyes of Love: Eknath Easwaran on the Imitation of Christ, 1996
Words to Live By
Author of Seeing With the Eyes of Love: Eknath Easwaran on the Imitation of Christ, 1996
Prayer is the greatest virtue
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The first aspect of prayer is giving thanks to God for all the numberless blessings that are bestowed upon us at every moment of the day and night, and of which we are mostly unconscious.
The second aspect of prayer is laying our shortcomings before the unlimited perfection of the divine Being, and asking His forgiveness. This makes man conscious of his smallness, of his limitation, and therefore makes him humble before his God...
There are many virtues, but there is one principal virtue. Every moment passed outside the presence of God is sin, and every moment in His presence is virtue. The whole object of the Sufi, after learning this way of communicating is to arrive at a stage where every moment of our life passes in communion with God, and where our every action is done as if God were before us. Is that within everyone's reach? We are meant to be so. Just think of a person who is in love: when he eats or drinks, whatever he does, the image of the beloved is there. In the same way, when the love of God has come, it is natural to think of God in everything we do.
from http://wahiduddin.
Prayer is the greatest virtue, the only way of being free from all sin.
Bowl of Saki, March 18, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The first aspect of prayer is giving thanks to God for all the numberless blessings that are bestowed upon us at every moment of the day and night, and of which we are mostly unconscious.
The second aspect of prayer is laying our shortcomings before the unlimited perfection of the divine Being, and asking His forgiveness. This makes man conscious of his smallness, of his limitation, and therefore makes him humble before his God...
There are many virtues, but there is one principal virtue. Every moment passed outside the presence of God is sin, and every moment in His presence is virtue. The whole object of the Sufi, after learning this way of communicating is to arrive at a stage where every moment of our life passes in communion with God, and where our every action is done as if God were before us. Is that within everyone's reach? We are meant to be so. Just think of a person who is in love: when he eats or drinks, whatever he does, the image of the beloved is there. In the same way, when the love of God has come, it is natural to think of God in everything we do.
from http://wahiduddin.
Friday, March 16, 2012
At every step of evolution, man's realization of God changes.
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At every step of evolution, man's realization of God changes.
Bowl of Saki, March 16, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
There is a time when toys are treasures. But the child who cries for a toy comes to an age when he gives it away. And at every step in a man's evolution the values of power and position and wealth change in his eyes. And so as he evolves there arises in him a spirit of renunciation which may be called the Spirit of God. Gradually he recognizes the real value of those fair and lovely qualities of the spirit that change not.
from http://wahiduddin.
In selfishness there is an illusion of profit,
but in the end the profit attained by selfishness proves to be worthless.
Life is the principal thing to consider,
and true life is the inner life,
the realization of God, the consciousness of one's spirit.
When the human heart becomes conscious of God it turns into the sea and it spreads;
it extends the waves of its love to friend and foe.
Spreading further and further it attains perfection.
from http://wahiduddin.
from http://wahiduddin.
In selfishness there is an illusion of profit,
but in the end the profit attained by selfishness proves to be worthless.
Life is the principal thing to consider,
and true life is the inner life,
the realization of God, the consciousness of one's spirit.
When the human heart becomes conscious of God it turns into the sea and it spreads;
it extends the waves of its love to friend and foe.
Spreading further and further it attains perfection.
from http://wahiduddin.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Knowledge
For the life of me, I do not know what this means! Enlighten me please!
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something but he does not know where it leads him.
The first sign of realization is tolerance towards others. There are the words of Christ: 'In the house of my father are many mansions' and those of the Prophet: 'Each soul has its own religion' This means that according to his evolution so man knows the truth and the more a man knows, the more he finds there is to learn.
from http://wahiduddin.
It is more important to know the truth about one's self
than to try to find out the truth of heaven and hell.
Bowl of Saki, March 9, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something but he does not know where it leads him.
The first sign of realization is tolerance towards others. There are the words of Christ: 'In the house of my father are many mansions' and those of the Prophet: 'Each soul has its own religion' This means that according to his evolution so man knows the truth and the more a man knows, the more he finds there is to learn.
from http://wahiduddin.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
God is Truth, and Truth is God.
What difference does "truth" make when I am punished for speaking mine?
When a person is living in his mind, he is living through the darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they have one and the same vision.
This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.
from http://wahiduddin.
God is truth, and truth is God.
Bowl of Saki, March 14, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul. ...
This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.
from http://wahiduddin.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Every man's pursuit is according to his evolution.
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Every man's pursuit
is according to his evolution.
Bowl of Saki, March 10, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Everyone says or does or thinks only according to his own particular evolution,
and he cannot do better.
Why not, therefore tolerate?
Why not, therefore, forgive?
~~~ "Religious Gatheka, Religion of the Heart III (#44)", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
~~~ "Religious Gatheka, Religion of the Heart III (#44)", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Moses once passed by a farm and saw a peasant boy talking to himself, saying, 'O Lord, Thou art so good and kind that I feel if Thou wert here by me I would take good care of Thee, more than of all my sheep, more than of all my fowls. In the rain I would keep Thee under the roof of my grass-shed, when it is cold I would cover Thee with my blanket, and in the heat of the sun I would take Thee to bathe in the brook. I would put Thee to sleep with Thy head on my lap, and would fan Thee with my hat, and would always watch Thee and guard Thee from wolves. I would give Thee bread of manna and would give Thee buttermilk to drink, and to entertain Thee I would sing and dance and play my flute. O Lord my God, if Thou wouldst only listen to this and come and see how I would tend Thee.'
Moses was amused to listen to all this, and, as the deliverer of the divine message, he said, 'How impertinent on thy part, O boy, to limit the unlimited One, God, the Lord of hosts, who is beyond form and color and the perception and comprehension of man.' The boy became disheartened and full of fear at what he had done.
But immediately a revelation came to Moses: 'We are not pleased with this, O Moses, for We have sent thee to unite Our separated ones with Us, not to disunite. Speak to everyone according to his evolution.'
from http://wahiduddin.
Every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something but he does not know where it leads him. The first sign of realization is tolerance towards others. There are the words of Christ: 'In the house of my father are many mansions' and those of the Prophet: 'Each soul has its own religion' This means that according to his evolution so man knows the truth and the more a man knows, the more he finds there is to learn.
from http://wahiduddin.
~~~ Every man's pursuit is according to his evolution.
Plow, Plant, Harvest
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The reformer comes to plow the ground;
the prophet comes to sow the seed;
and the priest comes to reap the harvest.
Bowl of Saki, February 21, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
There is the time of plowing, there is the time of sowing
and there is the time of reaping the harvest. It is not all done at the same time.
and there is the time of reaping the harvest. It is not all done at the same time.
Sight
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Man sees what he sees; beyond it he cannot see.
Bowl of Saki, March 11, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Ah! how desirous I was to see the divine Beloved!
It is not the fault of the Beloved that you do not see;
He is before you!
It is the fault of you who recognize Him not.
Everything, whatever you see is nothing else but
The Presence of God!
from http://wahiduddin.
It is not the fault of the Beloved that you do not see;
He is before you!
It is the fault of you who recognize Him not.
Everything, whatever you see is nothing else but
The Presence of God!
from http://wahiduddin.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Destinations... La Camioneta film (bus)
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Even if you get off the bus
and the bus goes along another road…
In the end, we will all arrive at the same destination.
La Camioneta film
http://vimeo.com/17294730
Official Website: lacamionetafilm.wordpress.com
Facebook page: facebook.com/lacamionetafilm
Even if you get off the bus
and the bus goes along another road…
In the end, we will all arrive at the same destination.
La Camioneta film
http://vimeo.com/17294730
Official Website: lacamionetafilm.wordpress.com
Facebook page: facebook.com/lacamionetafilm
The Symbol of the Cross ~ excerpt
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The cross is the symbol of manifestation.
THE CROSS which is usually taken as the symbol of the cross on which Christ died has many mystical meanings. It shows a vertical line and a horizontal line: everything that exists extends vertically and horizontally. This may be seen in the leaf: it has length and breadth. All that exists has come from these two lines, the vertical and the horizontal. The cross therefore, in its first meaning, is the symbol of manifestation.
Then, whenever someone begins to speak, to act for the truth, his way is barred, there is a cross against it. Speak the truth before the nation and there comes the cross, the bar from the nation. Speak the truth in the face of the world and the cross comes from the world against you.
Then, whenever someone begins to speak, to act for the truth, his way is barred, there is a cross against it. Speak the truth before the nation and there comes the cross, the bar from the nation. Speak the truth in the face of the world and the cross comes from the world against you.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Gratitude
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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum
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