attachment divides love

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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

The spiritual path is easiest if there is not something pulling one from behind; and that force is the life in the world, one's friends, surroundings, acquaintances, and one's foes. Remain, therefore, in the world as a traveler making a station on his way. Do all the good you can to serve and succor humanity, but escape attachment. By this in no way will you prove to be loveless. On the contrary, it is attachment which divides love, and love raised above attachment is like a rain from above nourishing all the plants upon the earth.

   ~~~ "Sangita I, Nasihat", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

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Even attaching ourselves to our religious views or our philosophical beliefs can create disdain and favoritism in our life.