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JP · 0 · 21h ago
2/tends to keep the heart in contraction and brings about its hardness. This comes out of the illusion of life, for really nufs has no control on heart yet heart becomes intoxicated in the midst of life and blindly follows. This brings about control of will by mind and creates an unending 3/
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3/trouble for every one. To open the heart there is a constant pull, and this pull does bring pain. The pain is not necessary, the pull is. But if one has kept the heart closed, has not voluntarily searched for God, then the very purpose and nature of life will cause this pull and 4/
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4/accompany it with pain. Even the law of karma serves not to draw people into the abyss but to bring them to a realization of a higher purpose in life. -------------- Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan There is a phrase in the Bible, 5/
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5/ "Knock, and it shall be opened unto you". The Message of God is an answer to the cry of humanity. Now, as to the instrument of the message -- in reality the whole universe is an instrument, and every object and every being in it is an instrument; through 6/
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6/whichever instrument He chooses He gives His message. One sees in one's life, and especially at times when one is deep down in depression and sorrow, some answer coming to the difficulty of that situation. It may come from a friend, from a brother, from parents, from a beloved; 7/
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7/even from one's enemy one may get what was necessary at the moment. But you will say, "Why should a message come in the life of an individual in the time of pain, or after a great sorrow? Why should not a message come every day for one's 8/
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8/guidance?" And there are two reasons for it: One reason is that there is constantly a guidance from above, but man, so absorbed in his life's activities, does not open his heart to listen to that message and to see where it comes from. And the other reason is that the deeper the sorrow 9/
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9/the higher the voice of the heart rises, until it reaches the throne of God; and that is the time when the answer comes, when a person is drowned deep in the sorrow and grief. ... Plainly speaking, man's real being is his heart, and in pain the heart becomes living and without 10/
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10/pain man seems to be living on the surface. You will often see in life that people with an intolerable nature and manner, after having gone through the agony of pain in life, develop in them a finer nature. -- Those who have avoided love in life from fear of its pain have lost more 11/
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