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Showing posts with label Bowl of Saki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bowl of Saki. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2014

The garden is my church and everything in it...



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Golden Lilies in my NC Garden 2006



Fountain in our garden in Oxford, North Carolina 2006



The garden is my church... and everything in it.

~ Catherine Todd, 2006

The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God.

Bowl of Saki, August 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Thursday, June 13, 2013

We are the Creators of our World

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Aridi Fractal 1X008




We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world.
 Bowl of Saki, June 6, 2013 by Hazrat Inayat Khan
. Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
 Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world. As vast as is the world around us, so vast is the world within. Asif says, 'The limitation of the sky and land cannot be compared with man's heart. If man's heart be wide, there is nothing wider than this.' All can be accommodated in it; heaven earth, sun, moon, all are reflected in it. It becomes itself the whole. This world becomes as one chooses to make it. If man only knew that! But since he does not know that, the world is not heaven, but has become its opposite. We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world; that our world has an influence upon our life within as well as upon our life without. http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_17.htm

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Attitude is the principle thing in life.

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Attitude is the principle thing in life. It is not the conditions in life which change life for us, but mostly it is our * attitude toward life and its conditions * upon which depends our happiness or unhappiness.  ~ Bowl of Saki, June 3, 2013, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Friday, August 24, 2012

Trust in God

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Put your trust in God
for support
and see
His hidden hand
working through all sources.




 Bowl of Saki, August 24, by Hazrat Inayat Khan


Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.   ~~~ "Classes for Mureeds,  Mureedship", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)


Man's greatest privilege is to become a suitable instrument of God, and until he knows this he has not realized his true purpose in life. The whole tragedy in the life of man is his ignorance of this fact. From the moment a man realizes this, he lives the real life, the life of harmony between God and man. When Jesus Christ said, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God,' this teaching was an answer to the cry of humanity: some crying, 'I have no wealth,' others crying, 'I have no rest,' others crying, 'My situation in life is difficult,' My friends are troubling me,' or, 'I want a position, wealth.' The answer to them all is, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.'
   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_40.htm

Monday, August 13, 2012

Love of Nature

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The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God.

Bowl of Saki, August 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan