Our innermost being is the real being of God.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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The earth supplies all the things that our nature demands except one, and that is our Source; and therefore we remain dissatisfied all through life in spite of everything that we may obtain in answer to our desires: pleasure, comfort, rank, or wealth. We may obtain them all, but still the longing of our soul will remain because it is for home. Home is the Source, which the wise have called God. … Our innermost being is that which may be called the Source Itself, and the outer being is what we call ‘humanity’.
The limited part of our being is the creation, and the innermost part of our being is the Creator. If this is true, then we are both limited and unlimited. If we wish to be limited we can become more and more limited. If we wish to be unlimited we can become more and more unlimited. If we cultivate in ourselves the illusion of being a creation, we can be that more and more. But if we cultivate in ourselves the knowledge of the Creator, we can also be that more and more.
Our innermost being is the real being of God; we are always linked with God. If we could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in our own soul that we find communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one’s innermost being with God, so that God is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of God’s Light. In that way we are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they have their being.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
God is in the heart, but God is not the heart. Heart is an accommodation; it is an attunement through a selection exercised in the Supreme whereby, evoking a certain note, a center of consciousness makes itself felt. This center comes out of love and knows nothing but love, and its love is its knowledge and its love commands all knowledge. This heart is not the same as other hearts, but neither is it different. All hearts form God, yet God is not conditioned by them. The Light is everywhere, yet by covering Itself, so to speak, It forms innumerable lamps — the light of which resembles a tremendous, incomparable Harmony.