Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The night sky over the Himalayas

During my flight to Qatar through the night I suddenly became aware of something outside my window. I looked out into the night and there were a million stars. First only large stars here and there, then the smaller ones became visible too. There were stars everywhere and I felt like we were almost level with them, flying past them.
I turned on the monitor to see where we were, and the map showed me, we just passed through the sky between Kabul and Islamabad...


Sunday, March 6, 2016

Love threshes you and leaves you naked...

He who says, 'I love you but only so much, I love you and give you sixpence but I keep sixpence for myself, I love you but I stand at a distance and never come closer, we are separate beings'- his love is with his self. As long as that exists, love has not done its full work. Love accomplishes its work when it spreads its wings and veils man's self from his own eyes. That is the time when love is fulfilled, and so it is in the life of the holy ones who have not only loved God by professing or showing it, but who have loved God to the extent that they forgot themselves.

Hazrat Inayat Khan