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 KhanThough you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
Vilayat Inayat KhanThe reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
Vilayat Inayat KhanWe first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Vilayat Inayat Khan