The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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But at the same time Hafiz has shown in his poetry what is the key to this; and that key is appreciation of beauty in all forms. Beauty is not always to be found in an object or a person; beauty depends upon one's attitude towards life, how one looks at it, and its effect depends upon our power of appreciation. The very same music or poetry or painting will touch one person so that he feels its beauty to the very depth of his being, while another person may look at it but not see it. The whole of manifestation has its beauty. Sometimes its beauty is clearly manifest to us, sometimes we have to look for it. We may meet a good person, and we are always charmed by the beauty of goodness. But we may meet another person who seems bad, and yet at the same time there is good hidden in him somewhere if we would only look for it, if we only had the desire to draw it out. The badness is not always in the objects and persons, but is often in our way of looking at them. The whole trend of the poetry of Hafiz is to awaken that appreciation and love of beauty which is the only means by which to experience that bliss which is the purpose of our life.


 
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