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
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