How We Forget

Many consider life to be an essentially meaningless exercise in consumption, maybe ‘creation’, aging, and death. Many of us tie our whole life purpose and value to completely transitory objectives, responsibilities, desires, and relationships. This life and the time-span it covers are but a blip on the vast, incomprehensible magnitude of the universe and the blanket of time, of eternity. As humans, we have an opportunity to meld our souls back with that eternity. We have an opportunity to return ourselves to the underlying whole. However, we often either live our life unaware of all this, asleep in the bed … Continue reading

Nothing that this Universe Will not Answer

“There is nothing that you ask that this universe will not answer. For it is the nature of this universe to answer your soul’s call. … When a person seeks for something in the universe and he cannot find it, it is not true that it is not there. The fact is that he does not see it.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan “Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, ‘I will do this, but I don’t think I shall succeed in it.’ Thus they hinder themselves in their path. … Continue reading

An important rule of psychology…

“An important rule of psychology is that every motive that takes its root in the mind must be watered and reared until its full development. And if one neglects this duty, one does not only harm the motive, but by this the will power becomes less, and the working of the mind becomes disorderly. Even if the motive be small and unimportant, yet a steady pursuit after its attainment trains the mind, strengthens the will, and keeps the inner mechanism in order. “For instance, when a person tries to unravel a knot, and then he thinks, ‘No use giving time … Continue reading