The Wisdom and Justice of God are within us, and yet they are far away, hidden by the veil of the limited self.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Whenever wars have occurred, whenever there has been bloodshed in the world, whenever there have been revolutions and upheavals in life, all the various disasters that have taken place are due to these same causes: on the one side humanity’s selfishness, and on the other our lack of understanding of the law of Nature and the law of Happiness.
Our limited self is like a wall separating us from the Self of God. God is as far away from us as that wall is thick. The Wisdom and Justice of God are within us, and yet they are far away under the covering of the veil of the limited self. Those who have arrived at that realization of the nature of God’s Justice are able to see all things in a different way from others. Their whole outlook on life becomes different. …
Humanity has now become cold, ignorant, and blind to the law that Life depends on the happiness of those with whom we live. The whole of Life is One. In all these different names and manifestations Life is One. The true thought is, ‘If my spouse is not happy, if my children, my neighbors, my servants are not happy, how can I ever be happy?’ An insult given to someone will one day return. How simple it is. Yet how difficult for us to understand! It is simple to those who observe Life keenly. It is difficult to those who are absorbed in themselves.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: The Desire of Nations )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
That is to say, laying aside this “I,” all else is ours. Whatsoever we cease to consider our own, it becomes our own, and whatsoever we continue to call our own, that we do not possess, rather does the thought of that possess us.