CS-0207 - "Simplicity of nature is the sign of saints."
"All is mystery when we do not know it; when we know it all is simple. The
true seekers after truth are lovers of simplicity. The right road is
simple,
clear and distinct. There is nothing vague about it." From; The Sufi
Message
of Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - The Mystery of
Color and Sound
"A spiritual person is considered very evolved, but in his appearance the
spiritual person may be the most simple, the most innocent one. He is not
ignorant but less complicated, broader in outlook, keener in perception,
with lofty ideals, with a high consciousness; and yet humble and
democratic
in the true sense of the word." From; The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat
Khan - The Alchemy of Happiness - The Art of Personality
"Man today has made life so complex that whatever he seeks after, he wants
to [it] find in complexity. All things in life, which have im****tance,
beauty, and value, are simple; and simplest of all things is the divine
truth. The one who cares little for it thinks it is too deep water to go
into, and the one who cares much for it thinks that it is so difficult
that
it would be very hard to find it. In this way both the lover of truth and
the one who does not care look for complexity. Knowing his nature, the
wise
have guided man gradually to the truth. Nevertheless, Jesus Christ, the
Prophet Mohammed, Moses, all the different prophets who in their time have
given the message of God and truth, have given it in perfect simplicity.
Today man with all his knowledge complicates that truth and gives it a
form
that is not understood. The general tendency is that when a man does not
understand something, he believes by the very fact of his not
understanding
it, that there must be something in it. From; The Sufi Message of Hazrat
Inayat Khan - In an Eastern Rose Garden - Simplicity and Complexity
"All that seems simple to us, all that presents no mystery, becomes
mysterious as soon as the outlook on life is changed. Secrecy is to be
found
in simplicity; it is the simple life which is full of secrets. A person
may
study a whole library, may write fifty books and may read a thousand, yet
all this leads him nowhere. If any' study is required we need not go
anywhere else; our life itself is study, if we will only study it. For one
who studies, life offers every op****tunity; from morning to evening, every
moment of the day, in the home, outside, at work, in leisure, in all
things
there is something to study. No book can give the joy and the pleasure
that
human nature itself can give." The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The
Path of Initiation - Inner Study
"The path of the mystic is the quickest path for the very reason that he
takes the path of simplicity, that he tells the truth in plain words. And
yet is it really as simple as it appears to be? The beauty is that in the
simplicity of the mystic there is the greatest subtlety; sometimes a thing
which looks all too gross may in the end prove to be most fine." The Sufi
Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - Philosophy, Psychology and Mysticism - The
Inspiration and Power of the Mystic
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