The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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  • A person who is conscientious in his duty, who attaches great importance to his ideal, is apt to say to the person who is engaged in money-making, "You are striving for earth's treasures, I am performing what I consider my duty."
  • The person who is making his way towards heaven, who is holding paradise in his expectations, is inclined to say to the pleasure-seeker, "You are absorbed in life's momentary pleasures, I am working for the life to come."
  • But the person who is busy money-making can also say to the one who is conscientious of duty and the one possessing a high ideal, "If you had to go through the experience which I have to, you would see in this too something worth while."
  • And the seeker after paradise may also be answered by the pleasure-seeking soul, as Omar Khayyam said: "Oh my Beloved, fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears. Tomorrow? Why, tomorrow I may be myself with yesterday's seventy-thousand years!


 
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