December 21, 2009

SPIRITUAL PERSONALITIES - HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN



Dear Family and Friends,

Here is an offering from Hazrat Inayat Khan.

May your Holy Days be filled with much Beauty, Love and the Joy of Family and Friends.

with all love,
Neshamah


In my explanation, 'Spiritual' means 'living'. A Spiritual person who is
awakened to the beauty of poetry, who is quick to admire the subtlety of the
poetry, who is appreciative of the beauty of melody, of harmony, who can
enjoy art and be exalted by the beauty of Nature, who lives as a living
being, not as dead, it is that person who may be called Spiritual.

And you will always find the tendency of Spiritual personalities to be
interested in every person in their lives. That is the sign that they are
living. A person who is shut up in himself, he closes himself, he has made
four walls around himself. That can be his grave; he is buried in it. The
person who is living, he naturally sees all, and, as he sees all, he
sympathizes with all, he responds to all, he appreciates all in everybody;
and in this way he wakens in himself the sublime vision of the immanence of
God.

[From he Inner Life and the Purpose of Life by Hazrat Inayat Khan ]

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