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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Gayan 417- Chala 96 - The seeming death is the real birth of the soul.

Gayan 417- Chala 96 - The seeming death is the real birth of the soul. We love our body and identify ourselves with it to such an extent that we are very unhappy to think that this body, which is so dear to us, will some day be in the grave. No one likes to think that it will die and be destroyed.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Vanity is a mask over the hidden object that attracts every soul.

Gayan #353 - Chala #32 - Vanity is a mask over the hidden object that attracts every soul. Always consider that this is the one thing that you will meet on this path, and the one enemy you will avoid: vanity. You must be on your guard against it from whichever side it comes. It comes so swiftly and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 1, 2019

GAYAN 256 - BOULA -215 - Sin is the fuel for virtue's fire.

GAYAN 256 - BOULA -215 - Sin is the fuel for virtue's fire. Everything a person does, spiritual or material, is only a stepping-stone for him to arrive at the inner purpose, if he can only take it to be so. If he is mistaken, the mistake is in himself; he is working towards the inner purpose just... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God.

Gayan #300 - Boula #259 The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God. Most people consider as sacred scriptures only certain books or scrolls written by the hand of man, and carefully preserved as holy, to be handed down to posterity as divine revelation. Men have fought and disputed over the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

The first step in intuition is to understand the symbolical meaning of diff

Gayan 430 - Chala 109 - The first step in intuition is to understand the symbolical meaning of different things, and the next is to express them symbolically. To a person who sees only the surface of life, symbols mean nothing. The secret of symbols is revealed to souls who see through life, whose... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 26, 2019

All aspects of life meet and share in common in that one central point whic

Gayan #309 - Boula #268 - All aspects of life meet and share in common in that one central point which is the Divine Mind. There is one treasure-house where all knowledge collected, experienced, learned, and discovered by human beings is stored; and that treasure-house is the Divine Mind, a mind... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Gayan 415- Chala 94 - Lack of patience starves virtue to death. P

Gayan 415- Chala 94 - Lack of patience starves virtue to death. Patience, the word itself, is the heaviest thing that is. To one who is in difficulties and troubles, to one who is in sorrow, to one who lives in the wish of obtaining his desire, the word patience has a dreadful sound. The sound is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 24, 2019

The word which is not heard is lost.

GAYAN 246 - BOULA -205 - The word which is not heard is lost. Many holy scriptures give evidence of the power of the word. But a science so well known to the prophets of all times where has it gone? That science has been lost to the view of the generality. The reason for this is that man engaged... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 23, 2019

A guilty conscience robs the will of its power

GAYAN 233 - BOULA -192 - A guilty conscience robs the will of its power. Power depends greatly upon the consciousness and the attitude of mind. A guilty conscience can turn lions into rabbits. They lose their power once they feel guilty; and so it is with man. When a man is impressed by what others... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

I have not come to change humanity; I have come to help it on.

Gayan 526- Gamaka 30 - I have not come to change humanity; I have come to help it on. What is the highest aim of the Sufi? The Sufi's highest aim is to probe the depth of life, that he or she might penetrate that veil which keeps one ignorant of one's life's secret. This attainment the Sufi... Sign in to see full entry.

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