The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Many times a person in a pessimistic mood, in a kind of disturbed condition may wish for death, wish for failure, wish for anything. If he only knew what an effect it has, he would be frightened. Even in pain, if a person could refrain from saying: "I am in pain", he would do a great deal of good to himself. If a person who has met with misfortune would even avoid saying: "I am experiencing misfortune", it would be a great 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 life too. But when a person says: "Oh, I have waited and waited and waited; my ship will never come", he is keeping his ship back in the sea. His ship will never arrive in the port, while the one who does not even see the ship, but says: "It is coming, it is coming" - he is calling it. It will come.


 
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