Life

Look not on life as a person would watch a play on the stage.
Rather look upon it as a student who is learning at college.
It is not a passing show; it is not a place of amusement in which to fool our life away.
It is a place for study, in which every sorrow, every heartbreak brings a precious lesson.
It is a place in which to learn by one's own suffering, by the study of the suffering of others; to learn from the people who have been kind to us as well as from the people who have been unkind.
It is a place in which all experiences, be they disappointments, struggles, and pains, or joys, pleasures, and comforts, contribute to the understanding of what life is, and the realization what it is.

-- Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan