Complexity is Interesting

When seeking the truth, it is very often the case that it is a maze that is discovered instead. Then follows an exploration of the maze until exhaustion finally breaks the obsession.

The greatest truths present themselves as great mysteries and some will immediately understand but most will be “interested”.

Each person decides themselves, whether or not to embrace the truth or the maze. Those who choose truth do so by drawing on the soul within.

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Truth is simple. But for the very reason that it is simple, people will not take it; because our life on earth is such that for everything we value, we have to pay a great price and one wonders, if truth is the most precious of all things, then how can truth be attained simply?

It is this illusion that makes everyone deny simple truth and seek for complexity. Tell people about something that makes their heads whirl round and round and round. Even if they do not understand it, they are most pleased to think, ‘It is something substantial. It is something solid. For, it is an idea we cannot understand, it must be something lofty.’ But something which every soul knows, proving what is divine in every soul, and which it cannot help but know, that appears to be too cheap, for the soul already knows it.

There are two things: knowing and being. It is easy to know truth, but most difficult to be truth. It is not in knowing truth that life’s purpose is accomplished; life’s purpose is accomplished in being truth.

Bowl of Saki, October 6, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

In a Word, There is Light

How important it is to think more than to speak; to treat the content of communication with others as a craft, to wait for the feeling of the “rightness” of words while asking; love? harmony? beauty?

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word, one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. … There is a Hindu idea that explains this very well: that the vehicle of the goddess of learning is eloquence. Many live, but few think; and among the few who think there are fewer still who can express themselves. Then their soul’s impulse is repressed, for in the expression of the soul the divine purpose is fulfilled.

Bowl of Saki, August 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The Mystic Needs No Approval

Of the many conflicts we face in life, both inner and outer, our regard for what others think is often at odds with our hope for a real inner security; for a real personal peace.

The average person cannot understand the mystic; and therefore people are always at a loss when dealing with one. ‘Yes’ is not the same ‘yes’ that everybody says; ‘no’ has not the same meaning as that which everybody understands. In almost every phrase uttered there is some symbolical meaning. Every outward action has an inner significance. One who does not understand this symbolical meaning may be bewildered by hearing a phrase, which is nothing but confusion.

Bowl of Saki, August 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (gender neutral text)

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