Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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There is no greater power than Love. All strength comes with the awakening of love in the heart. … If there is any protecting influence in the world, it is not other than love. In all aspects of life, wherever we find protection, its motive is always love, and no one can have trust in any protection, however great, except the protection that love offers. If a giant were to frighten a child, the child would say, ‘I will tell my mother.’ The strength and power of any person is too small in comparison with love’s protection which the mother affords her child. Love can heal better than anything in the world.
Behind all this world of various names and forms there is One Life, there is One Spirit. This Spirit which is the Soul of all beings is attracted towards Unity, and it is the absence of this Spirit which keeps the world unhappy. To those who have just had some unpleasantness with their sibling, their food is tasteless, their night without sleep, their heart restless, their soul under a cloud. This shows that we do not necessarily live on food; our soul lives on love, the love that we receive and the love that we give. The absence of this is our unhappiness, and the presence of it is all we need.
True life cannot be ours until Unity is achieved. It is the work of religion to promote the spirit of Unity, in the knowledge and love of God to whom all devotion belongs. People often seek for psychic, occult, and magnetic powers. This is not the purpose of religion; these developments come of themselves. Where there is Life and Love, there is magnetism; Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
The dark clouds brought romance between Thee, my Beloved, and me.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
Pain manifests through mind, and pain is only possible when nufs holds sway. When a hand is cut, a unity has been broken; when the natural movements of the body have been obstructed, a unity is broken. Every pain shows absence of unity, and love shows presence of unity. In unity is all strength.
Pain is only possible when breath does not reach a part. But breath cannot force itself to any area of the body or mind; it must be directed by will, which is nothing but heart.