Every moment of our life is an invaluable opportunity.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Every moment in our lives is an opportunity which brings a benefit and blessing. And the one who knows how to be benefited by it and how to be blessed by it receives the benefit and the blessing. Everyone seems living and awake, but few souls really are living and awake. There are opportunities of benefit and blessing on every plane of one’s life, on the physical plane, on the mental plane, on the spiritual plane, and every opportunity is invaluable. But often one realizes the truth when it is too late. There is no greater and better opportunity than the [ present ] moment that can give a spiritual illumination, a moment when one can receive the blessing of God. It is a priceless moment. Who knows it and understands it and tries to be benefited by it, is blessed.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume )
…the first question is how to make the best of our life, how to make the best of this opportunity which is passing us by. Every moment lost is incomparably more valuable than the loss of money. As we come to realize this, we will more and more come to the conclusion that we have gone on and on thinking we were progressing, but that we have been moving around in the same maze. If only we would find the door, that door which is called by the wise spiritual attainment!
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume )
Our greatest enemy is our ego which manifests itself in selfishness. Even in our doing good, in our kind actions, selfishness is sometimes at work. When we do good with the thought that one day it may return to us and that we may share in the good, we sell our pearls for a price. A kind action, a thought of sympathy, of generosity, is too precious to trade with. We should give and, while giving, close the eyes. We should remember to do every little action, every little kindness, every act of generosity with our whole heart, without the desire of getting anything in return making a trade out of it. The satisfaction must be in doing it and in nothing else.
Every step in evolution makes life more valuable. The more evolved we are, the more priceless is every moment; it becomes an opportunity for us to do good to others, to serve others, to give love to others, to be gentle to others, to give our sympathy to souls who are longing and hungering for it. Life is miserable when one is absorbed in oneself; as soon as one forgets oneself one is happy.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
Every breath brings with it something from heaven; every breath takes with it something to heaven. There are the thoughts we get and the thoughts we give, there are the words we get and the words we give, there are the things we get and the things we give. All this is part of life, but there is more: according to our union with God every moment of our lives is permanent success obtained or lost.