theme of graciousness

Post date: Apr 7, 2009 9:14:48 PM

From: Saki Lee

Some words from Murshid on the theme of graciousness

The one who lives in his finer feelings lives in heaven; when he puts them into words, he drops down to earth.

The spirit of feeling is lost when a sentiment is expressed in words. If words did not exist, the power of man's feeling would be a thousand times greater. The heart of man is vaster than the ocean. Every feeling therein is a wave rising in the sea, and when it is put into a word it becomes a pebble. Yes, there is a beauty in words, as there is beauty in flowers. But the flowers may be called the angels of the earth. They live only in Heaven; on the earth they appear for a moment and fade away. The feelings are like angels.

The one who lives in his feelings lives in Heaven, when he puts them into words he drops down on the earth. And, however beautiful his imagination and his choice of words, he turns angels into flowers. A person who really has some feeling, a person who has imagination, when he is silent it becomes a power, an ever increasing power. Do you think a person who really loves need say "I love you?" No, the word "love" cannot express his feeling, it is too small in comparison to what love means to him who truly loves.

Expression of sentiment is an outlet given to the energy of the heart, which if it had been conserved would have been a power in itself. A person who expresses an opinion about another readily, a mist is produced by his word before his own eyes; he can see no further than what he sees. If he controlled that impulse of expressing his opinion, it would be an effort at that moment, but it would open before him the vision revealing all that he would wish to know.

Esoteric Papers - Sangatha 1 - METAPHYSICS