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