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a fertile and fruitful land


 

The heart may be likened to soil.

Soil may be fertile or a barren desert, but the soil

which is fertile is that which bears fruit. It is that which

is chosen by living beings to dwell in, although many are lost

in the soil of the desert, and lead in it a life of grief and loneliness.

Man has both in him, for he is the final manifestation. He may

let his heart be a desert where everyone abides hungry and

thirsty, or he may make it a fertile and fruitful land

where food is provided for hungry souls, the

children of the earth, strong or weak,

rich or poor, who always hunger

for love and sympathy.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

attitude is the secret of life

 

in one’s mind there is a source

jacob wrestling with the enemy

 

One learns to understand

that there is a world in one’s self,

that in one’s mind there is a source of happiness

and unhappiness, the source of health and illness, the source of light

and darkness, and that it can be awakened, either mechanically or at will,

if only one knew how to do it. Then one does not blame his ill fortune

nor complain of his fellow man. He becomes more tolerant,

more joyful, and more loving toward his neighbor,

because he knows the cause of every thought

and action, and he sees it all as the

effect of a certain cause.

 

A physician would not

revenge himself on a patient in an asylum,

even if the patient hit him, for he knows the cause.

Psychology is the higher alchemy, and one must not study

it only without practicing it. Practice and study must

go together, which opens the door to

happiness for every soul.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

kashf / insight

 

the aristocracy of the heart

collect and keep happy experiences

 

Tawazu’ in Sufic terms

means something more than hospitality.

It is laying before one’s friend willingly what one has,

in other words sharing with one’s friend all the

good one has in life, and with it,

enjoying life better.

 

When this tendency

to tawazu’ is developed, things that

give one joy and pleasure become more enjoyable by

sharing with another. This tendency comes from the aristocracy

of the heart. It is generosity and even more than generosity. For the

limit of generosity is to see another pleased in his pleasure,

but to share one’s own pleasure with another is greater

than generosity. It is a quality which is foreign

to a selfish person, and the one who

shows this quality is on the

path of saintliness.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

I am a sky where spirits live

ocean ramsey

 

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,

Like this.

When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,

Like this.

If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.

Like this.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.

Like this.

If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.

Like this. Like this.

When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.

If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.

This tall.

The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.

Like this.

When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.

Like this.

I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.

Like this.

When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.

Like this.

How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?

Huuuuu.

How did Jacob’s sight return?

Huuuu.

A little wind cleans the eyes.

Like this.

When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us.

Like this.

 

Jalal al-Din Rumi

 

postsecret

 

And did

you feel it, in your heart,

how it pertained to everything? 

And have you too finally figured out

what beauty is for? And have

you changed your

life?

 

Mary Oliver

September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019

 

they see the divine in all forms

 

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.

 

There is hidden in our heart a

wonderful power. It is a divine power,

a sacred power, and it can be developed

and cherished by keeping our

attitude right.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

to know the right attitude from the wrong

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