Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
Vilayat Inayat KhanWork with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.
Vilayat Inayat KhanWe first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Vilayat Inayat KhanThere can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.
Vilayat Inayat KhanOvercome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
Vilayat Inayat Khan