The Bowl of Saki (for every one) for Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

By our thoughts we have prepared for ourselves the happiness or unhappiness

By our thoughts we have prepared for ourselves the happiness or unhappiness we experience. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Fighting with another makes war, but struggling with one's self brings peace. from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/say/gayan_talas.htm All our possessions, all that we collect in life, all these things which we shall have to leave one day are transitory; but that which we have created in our thought, in our mind, that lives. A person... Sign in to see full entry.

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He is living whose sympathy is awake, and he is dead whose heart is asleep.

He is living whose sympathy is awake, and he is dead whose heart is asleep. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Life's light is love; and when the heart is empty of love, a man is living and yet not living; from a spiritual point of view he is dead. When the heart is asleep, he is as though dead in this life, for one can only love through the heart. But love does not mean give and take. That is only a trade; it's selfishness. To give sixpence and receive... Sign in to see full entry.

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