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Bowl of Saqi for February 8
LOVE MANIFESTS TOWARDS THOSE WHOM WE LIKE AS LOVE;
TOWARDS THOSE WHOM WE DO NOT LIKE AS FORGIVENESS.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
The love we feel toward friends and relatives and heroes is
natural. Although Christ said, "Love ye your enemies," this
does not mean to entertain the identical feeling toward
them. Why? Because feeling is that which connects parties
and unites them. We are united to our dear ones by love. By
whatever the feeling we hold to those we do not like, they
may not feel friendly toward us.
The proper attitude is therefore selflessness, to refuse to
hold the feeling of dislike. They, not appreciating our
love, could not see it as love or friend****p but could
perceive it in the spirit of forgiveness. From our point of
view it would be the same in both cases, but the object of
love and the connection between ourself and the other would
be different in each instance.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/feb/february8.htm
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