As my love
and my faith and my interest in
the inner grew, the darkness diminished,
within and without, and Lalla lost
herself in that light.
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the value of emptiness
Thirty spokes
meet at a hollowed-out hub;
the wheel won’t work without its hole.
A vessel is moulded from solid clay; its inner
emptiness makes it useful. To make a room, you
have to cut doors and windows; without
openings, a place isn’t livable.
To make use of what is here,
you must make use of
what is not.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
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discover the harmony in your own being
Why scurry
about looking for the truth?
It vibrates in every thing and every
not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.
Can you be still and see it in the
mountain? the pine tree?
yourself?
Don’t imagine
that you’ll discover it by accumulating
more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt,
and doubt makes you ravenous for more
knowledge. You can’t get full
eating this way.
The wise person
dines on something more subtle:
He eats the understanding that the named
was born from the unnamed, that all being flows
from non-being, that the describable world emanates
from an indescribable source. He finds this subtle
truth inside his own self, and becomes
completely content.
So
who can be
still and watch the
chess game of the world?
The foolish are always making
impulsive moves, but the wise know
that victory and defeat are decided by
something more subtle. They see
that something perfect exists
before any move
is made.
This
subtle perfection
deteriorates when artificial
actions are taken, so be content not
to disturb the peace. Remain quiet.
Discover the harmony in
your own being.
Embrace it.
If you
can do this, you will
gain everything, and the world
will become healthy again.
If you can’t, you will be
lost in the shadows
forever.
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the aristocracy of the heart
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.
serving without expectation of reward
Tao gives
life to all beings.
Nature nourishes them.
Fellow creatures shape them.
Circumstances complete them.
Everything in existence respects tao and
honors nature — not by decree,
but spontaneously.
Tao gives life to all beings.
Nature watches over them, develops them,
shelters them, nurses them, grows them, ripens
them, completes them, buries them,
and returns them.
Giving birth,
nourishing life, shaping things
without possessing them, serving without
expectation of reward, leading without dominating:
These are the profound virtues of nature,
and of nature’s best beings.
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