Thursday, July 18, 2013

Mastery

"The balance is kept by knowing that nothing which the Earth can offer is more precious than one's soul. The one who runs after things, those things run away from him, frightened of his continual pursuit. But the one who does not go in pursuit of objects will find that they inevitably become his own. When God becomes one's own, what will not become one's own?"

Inayat Khan, Mastery through Accomplishment (Omega Publications, 1993 Ed, p.14) 

"El equilibrio se mantiene por saber que nada de lo que la Tierra puede ofrecer es más precioso que el alma de uno. El que va detrás de las cosas, esas cosas huir de él, asustada de su búsqueda continua. Pero el que no se va en busca de objetos encontrará que inevitablemente se convierten en su propia. Cuando Dios se hace uno mismo, lo que no va a ser uno mismo?"

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