Sunday, March 27, 2011
We start our lives trying to be teachers; it is very hard to learn to be a pupil. Bowl of Saki, March 27, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: The principal teaching of Sufism is that of learning to become a pupil, for it is the pupil who has a chance of becoming a teacher, and once a person considers that he is a teacher, his responsiveness is gone. The greatest teachers of the world have been the greatest pupils. from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_35.htm We often... Sign in to see full entry.
Bowl of Saki, March 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Man is closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean. Bowl of Saki, March 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: One day Inayat was praying on the roof of the house, offering his prayers and he thought to himself that there had not been an answer yet to all the prayers he had offered to God and he did not know where God was to hear his prayers and he could not reconcile himself to going on praying to the God whom he knew not. He went fearlessly to his father and... Sign in to see full entry.