It is the lovers of God whose hearts are filled with devotion who can commune with God, not those who make an effort with their intellects to analyze God.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Science is learned by analysis and esotericism by synthesis. If those who want to obtain esoteric knowledge break things up into bits, they are analyzing them; and as long as they do this they will never come to understand esotericism. In psychology two things are needed: analysis and synthesis; and when through a better understanding of psychology one has accustomed oneself to synthesize as well as to analyze, then one prepares oneself to synthesize only, which leads to a fuller understanding of esotericism. Therefore, the acquisition of esoteric knowledge is quite different from the study of science.
It is the lovers of God whose hearts are filled with devotion, who can commune with God; not those who make an effort with their intellects to analyze God. In other words, it is the lover of God who can commune with God not the student of God’s nature. It is the ‘I’ and ‘you’, which divide, and yet it is ‘I’ and ‘you’, which are the necessary conditions of love. Although ‘I’ and ‘you’ divide the one life into two, it is love that connects them by the current which is established between them; and it is this current which is called communion, which runs between us and God.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
All that is above the mind-mesh escapes analysis. Only what the mind can grasp and pull below can be subjected to such a process. It is like a fish pulling some substance from the surface into the depths. The fish could only understand what it has grasped, and the rest of the substance would escape its comprehension. So it is with Life and Truth. What the mind grasps is such a small portion of what really exists that unassisted mind can never unveil the Mysteries. Yet when illumination comes through the awakening of heart, all things may be clear before the mind.
For this, no effort is necessary other than love, than self-surrender, than devotion, than throwing aside all these clinging thoughts. But you cannot tell the mind to love in a lesson, nor the heart to love through a persuasive talk or talisman. The heart must love because it must love.