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Bowl of Saqi for January 30
THE HEART IS NOT LIVING UNTIL IT HAS EXPERIENCED PAIN.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
The angel lives in the heart-sphere but does not know pain.
There is not strength in the love, it is something like the
natural love of the infant. It is only when love is tested
that love can show its strength. If it turns to hate or any
emotion, that shows there was no life there. Sufis are able
to experience pain in the heart without being drowned by it.
The various spiritual practices are exercises to the
heart-muscles and to the heart faculties. This endows the
heart with life; that is to say, it enables the heart to
partake of experiences and to shed the Divine Light upon
them, showing the proper way through all intricacies of
external existence.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january30.htm
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