In this restless time full of violence, polarisation and misunderstanding the following words of Hazrat Inayat Khan are of such a great importance. Let us feel these words deeply and contemplate them!
“By sleep we understand the covering of ourselves from the world of which we are conscious, but we do not realize that, when we are awake, we are covering ourselves from another world which, in fact, is more real; it is the self which is covered. The difference between the sleeping and the waking state is that, when we cover ourselves from what, in fact, is real, we say: “I am awake” and, when we cover ourselves from what is unreal and illusion, we say we are asleep.
The reason for this is that in the state in which we are conscious of all things around us we are able to point to objects around us, therefore we say that we are awake, and during the time of sleep we think we are dreaming, we do not know where we are or what we are doing. In reality that is the very time when we are experiencing our real life.
What does our real life consist of? Our real life consists of natural happiness, peace and purity. By purity I mean that our heart, our mind, our intelligence are pure from all worries, anxieties, pains and tortures, from bitterness or sweetness, such as we experience in the world. Otherwise our heart reflects on these things all the time and accordingly brings us suffering”.
The Sufi Message, Volume VIII revised: Health and Order of Body and Mind.
Let us try to be conscious all the time of this real life!
With our heartiest greetings,
Sattva van Dorssen, Secretary of the Spiritual Healing Activity
Shamsher van Hees, Assistant Secretary, Spiritual Healing Activity
Let us try to be conscious all the time of this real life!
With our heartiest greetings,
Sattva van Dorssen, Secretary of the Spiritual Healing Activity
Shamsher van Hees, Assistant Secretary, Spiritual Healing Activity
