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Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
14/taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart.
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Truth is one, God is one, life is one. To me there is no such thing as two. Two is only one plus one.
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13/what is hidden under these sects, these different religions, and he begins to seek the object which he wishes to gain through wisdom. Wisdom is a veil over truth, even wisdom cannot be called truth. God alone is truth, and it is truth that is God. And truth can neither be studied nor 14/
12/and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is truth.
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The seeker after truth goes out into the world and he finds innumerable different sects and religions. He does not know where to start. Then he desires to find out
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11/their opposite, but neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in all things 12/
10/We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth. When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have 11/
9/have one and the same vision. This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.
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8/living through the darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they 9/
7/prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul. ... When a person is living in his mind, he is 8/
6/highest forms of meditation and contemplation.
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the
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5/mind-mesh, it is the realization that this life beyond the mental, called Buddhic, includes also every sort of condition, actual and potential, so that all Heaven and Hell appear as part of one's being. This cannot be discussed, as it is clouded by every process except the 6/
4/theosophically expressed, Truth is all which is called *Rupa* and *Arupa* -- all in name and form and all without name and form in the state and stage of Absolute Unity, a Unity which while being Unity includes every degree and variety of complexity. So it is not only the life above the 5/
3/symbolism, effect or explanation can but point to a sort of *Neti*, as the Hindus describe it; that is to say, truth is depicted as being something different from anything and everything which can be depicted.
But from the metaphysical point of view,
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2/which is really beyond discussion. From one point of view, the process of apprehension of truth is in the first place a living heart awakening and growth. Even then the reality of completion comes only after the heart is fully awakened, and the self explored. Word, form, thought, 3/
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GOD IS TRUTH; AND TRUTH IS GOD.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
There are just two ways to discuss this matter, the very nature and essence of
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For those who likes to amalgam anti Zionism with antisemitism. Here are Jewish people against Zionism as a political choice having nothing to do with religion or at least the way they live it.
9/loses himself in the vision of God.
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8/spirit of God from the view of man.
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As life unfolds itself to man the first lesson it teaches is humility; the first thing that comes to man's vision is his own limitedness. The vaster God appears to him, the smaller he finds himself. This goes on and on until the moment comes when he
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7/man has had enough pain in his life he rises to this great consciousness. But it is not necessary that only pain should be the means. It is the readiness on the part of man to efface his part of consciousness and to efface his own personality, which lifts the veil that hides the 8/
6/that an artist looking at his picture, says, 'It is Thy work, not mine;' or that a musician, hearing his composition, says, 'It is Thy creation, I do not exist.' That soul then is in a way crucified, and through that crucifixion resurrection comes. There is not the slightest doubt that when 7/
5/humble yourself before Him, it can never be enough. To humble your limited self before His Perfection, that is to deny yourself. Self denial is not renouncing things, it is denying the self, and its first lesson is humility.
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This is self-denial: that a man says, 'I am not, Thou art;' or 6/
4/humbling yourself before God! ... humbling yourself before
that Spirit, that Ideal, who is the true Father and Mother, on Whose love you can always depend -- it is a spark of His love which expresses itself in the earthly father and mother -- and in whatever manner you
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3/through the Grace of God, as in meditation and Zikar.
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Every moment of our life, if we can see wisely, contains some fault or error, and asking pardon is just like purifying the heart and washing it white. Only think of the joy of
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