Bowl of Sake - Comentaries

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The heart is not living until it has experienced pain.

The heart is not living until it has experienced pain. Bowl of Saki, January 30, by Hazrat Inayat Khan My Commentary - Oh boy, here we go. Most of us are experts on pain. Who has not experienced a brolen heart? Our stories of woe fill novels, movoes and TV shows. We all know the life changing power... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 21, 2019

Love and Will

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken. Bowl of Saki, January 21, by Hazrat Inayat Khan What benefits come from a broken... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 20, 2019

To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion.

To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion. Bowl of Saki, January 20, by Hazrat Inayat Khan My Commentary - I lived with a woman who was raised Roman Catholic, and as an adult, chose to reject all religion. But she lived her life in a small Arkansas town treating every... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Yes, teach your principles of good, but do not think to limit God within them. The goodness of each man is peculiar to himself. Bowl of Saki, January 15, by Hazrat Inayat Khan My Commentary In the first place, anything one might say about God would be limited by words, themselves. The reality of God... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 14, 2019

January 14 A man’s inclination is the root of the tree of his life.

January 14 A man’s inclination is the root of the tree of his life. The following commentary is by Samual Lewis, Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti.... Inclination means leaning, and this leaning necessarily takes some direction. If man is dependent upon mind or body, he cannot rise above limitation. Yet his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 10, 2019

To analyze God is to dethrone God.

An ideal is beyond explanation. To analyze God is to dethrone God. Bowl of Saki, January 10, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan: Belief is like a staircase. Each step takes one higher, but when one remains standing on a certain step of the staircase one does not progress. Belief... Sign in to see full entry.

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An ideal is beyond explanation. To analyze God is to dethrone God. Bowl of Saki, January 10, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan: Belief is like a staircase. Each step takes one higher, but when one remains standing on a certain step of the staircase one does not progress. Belief... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 5, 2019

No one has seen God and lived. To see God we must be non-existent.

No one has seen God and lived. To see God we must be non-existent. Bowl of Saki, January 5, by Hazrat Inayat Khan My Commentary Scripture says if you look on God, you will surely die. What does that mean? Does it mean literally that if you saw God, you would drop dead? I think not. RATHER, Hazrat... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 3, 2019

Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind.

Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind. Bowl of Saki, January 3, by Hazrat Inayat Khan The truth is simple; the mind wants complexity. The truth is not hidden, but the mind hides it because the hiding is more interesting to the mind. Our minds chop reality into bits analyzing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Truth is as a Flowing Stream

As water in a fountain flows as one stream but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth. Bowl of Saki, January 1, by Hazrat Inayat Khan This appears obvious at first blush, but its ramifications are profound. I am a Christian, Jesus Christ is... Sign in to see full entry.

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