ONE WHO WITH SINCERITY SEEKS HIS REAL PURPOSE IN LIFE IS HIMSELF SOUGHT BY THAT PURPOSE.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
The search is a tuning; spiritual development is a tuning. The law of concentration is that not only will, not only mind, are focused upon some particular goal, the whole consciousness and breath are placed in harmony. This brings about attunement of self, and once this attunement is gained the greatest obstacle to obtaining any wish has been overcome.
Indeed there is nothing outside of us that stands very much in our way. There is so much in the Universe that everybody could easily be satisfied without harming others. Concentration of itself draws the desired thing, and peace and harmony within hasten its coming. Yet this unity is the very purpose of our existence which includes all smaller purposes within itself.
EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPOSES TE MUSIC OF HIS OWN LIFE; IF HE INJURES ANOTHER HE BREAKS THE HARMONY AND THERE IS DISCORD IN THE MELODY OF HIS LIFE.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
THE QUALITY OF FORGIVENESS THAT BURNS UP ALL THINGS EXCEPT BEAUTY IS THE QUALITY OF LOVE.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
This love is that which removes the boundaries between self and self. When there is no longer a this-self and that-self, there can no longer be pain of separation. This brings about pure forgiveness -- not something mental, not a changed attitude of mind, but a changed attitude of heart.
THE SOUL IS ALL LIGHT; DARKNESS IS CAUSED BY THE DEADNESS OF THE HEART; PAIN MAKES IT ALIVE.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
LOVE LIES IN SERVICE; ONLY THAT WHICH IS DONE NOT FOR FAME OR NAME, NOT FOR THE APPRECIATION OR THANKS OF THOSE FOR WHOM IT IS DONE, IS LOVE'S SERVICE.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
The great pity is that so many acts done out of real kindness have been interpreted to mean goodness of personality. Personality, name and fame are all of mind-nature, they are not of heart-nature. They are of mind-nature and to ascribe goodness or kindness to mind is contrary to truth and also out of harmony with the teachings of the Holy Ones. Jesus Christ has said that God alone is good, and Mohammed called God the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Love is far more abiding, far more real than name or fame or even personality from a certain view. All things that are discrete things change form, pass away and are not forever abiding. That which is attached to name and fame can only be self-love. Even if tinged with goodness, kindness or piety, it lacks vision and contains the seeds of its own destruction. For where there is mind, where there is self and not- self, there is dualism, and where there is dualism there is evil. The self that is kind to another self can be unkind to the other self, but
where love has broken the bonds of self, there can never be unkindness, never be cruelty.
IT IS MISTRUST THAT MISLEADS; SINCERITY ALWAYS LEADS STRAIGHT TO THE GOAL.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
EVERY EXPERIENCE OF THE PHYSICAL, ASTRAL OR MENTAL PLANE IS JUST A DREAM BEFORE THE SOUL.
--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
For in them the experience is not of oneself; it may arise from thought of self, but the experience is not oneself. Actor and action are two, not one. What is this world? What are these thoughts, these sensations, these habits, these longings, these desires? They are the externalizations of the inmost spirit taking form in the matter-stuff
and mind-stuff of the universe. Without that Supreme Self dominating the whole scene of creation, there would be no experiences, and it is because of the God in us -- which is our very essence -- that we do have experiences, but they are still fantasies of a mighty Being which the finite mind cannot comprehend.