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« on: Dec 26, 2010 10:21 pm »

Love is unlimited, but it needs scope to expand and rise; without that scope, life is unhappy.
     Bowl of Saki, December 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
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A person who lives in happy surroundings with luxuries and sources of pleasure and comfort, may be envied and imagined to be a very happy and lucky man. In reality, however, he may be very unhappy. The external world has given him all he wished for, but the inner world, the inner being, is unhappy. There is something absent, and he wants it to be present. There is something missing inwardly. This shows that the inner presence is required. The external presence is not the only comfort.
 
But we may ask, the inner presence of what? Many will say, 'We know we are unhappy sometimes in spite of wealth, comfort, happiness, friends, or beloved.' But, perhaps they will not believe that it is another lack, the lack of a divine ideal that makes them unhappy. Others consider that life requires scope for progress, and that it is the lack of scope that causes the greatest unhappiness. Such persons think that they cannot prosper in the work that they are doing, that they cannot be any better off than the others. Such a thought is worse than death. Life is unlimited, and it wants scope to expand and rise. Without that scope life is unhappy.
 
   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_31.htm
 
 
Every kind of power lies in this one thing which we call by the simple name: love. Charity, generosity, kindness, affection, endurance, tolerance, and patience -- all these words are different aspects of one; they are different names of only one thing: love. Whether it is said, 'God is love,' or whatever name is given to it, all the names are the names of God; and yet every form of love, every name for love, has its own peculiar scope, has a peculiarity of its own. Love as kindness is one thing, love as tolerance is another, love as generosity is another, love as patience another; and yet from beginning to end it is just love. ... True love must have free flow; and to learn that free flow the teachers have taught us first to love from the limited, and thence to advance in love till we attain to the love of God, the Unlimited.
 
   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_9.htm
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I found these entries very helpful to me and some friends. i hope to find time to read the link as well. Thanks for highlighting the link.

In particular this quote makes me respond: Whether it is said, 'God is love,' or whatever name is given to it, all the names are the names of God; and yet every form of love, every name for love, has its own peculiar scope, has a peculiarity of its own.
When we are on this path towards love we see that every other path, whether slow or fast as it may seem, is a path to that love. It is much better to be conscious of the path we are taking and to find the fastest route for our aspirations. The only way that i know to gauge this is to assess the people, situations and circumstances that come into our lives and the long term affects on our consciousness to express the love we have gained through these conditions. That which is inimical to this process is what we should avoid as much as possible.

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