As the light of the sun helps the plant to grow, so the Divine Spirit helps the soul towards its perfection.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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The Spirit of Guidance is a plant that grows and blossoms when it meets with response and care; and when it is watered by the rainfall of Divine Inspiration it blooms in the Light of the Divine Sun. The Spirit of Guidance is the Light of God, which may be likened to a lantern that the farmer carries when walking on the farm in the darkness of night. It is like a searchlight, which shows up any object upon which it is thrown; and so when the Light of the Spirit of Guidance is thrown upon any aspect of life, one receives a keen insight into it. In the Spirit of Guidance one finds a living God active in the heart of every person.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume IX – The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part III: The Spirit of Guidance )
The purpose of Life is that we grow towards perfection; from the greatest limitation we grow towards perfection. Its beauty is in acquiring wisdom, in living at the cost of all our failures, our mistakes. It is all worthwhile, and it all accomplishes the purpose of our coming to the Earth.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VI – The Alchemy of Happiness: Our Life’s Experience )
What is necessary today is to find the first and last religion, to come to the message of Christ, to Divine Wisdom, so that we may recognize wisdom in all its different forms, in whatever form it has been given to humanity. It does not matter if it is Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism. It is One Wisdom, that call of the Spirit, which awakens us to rise above limitation and to reach perfection.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VI – The Alchemy of Happiness: From Limitation to Perfection, Part 1 )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
Light has three aspects which have formed the phenomenon of sun in the physical, mental, and spiritual worlds respectively. In the physical world, the sun promotes the growth of plants as well as of animals and humans. In the mental world, the sun helps to increase the intellectual power of animals and humans. In the spiritual world, the sun awakens the heart by the process of sympathy and attunement, a principle found operating in the radio and in general where there are the so-called sympathetic vibrations of any kind.