The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Many times a person in a pessimistic mood may, in a kind of disturbed condition, wish for death, wish for failure, wish for anything. If they only knew what an effect it has they would be frightened. I would advise a person that, even in pain, if he can refrain from saying, "I am in pain," he would do a great good to himself. If a person who has met with a misfortune, would even avoid saying, "I am experiencing a misfortune," it would be the greatest thing. For when a person acknowledges the existence of something he does not want he only gives it a greater life. In the same way when a person acknowledges something that he wants he gives that also life. But when a person says, "Oh I have waited and waited and waited but my ship will never come," he is keeping his ship back in the sea, his ship will never arrive in the port. |