Helpless

By looking for happiness, what does man seek after?
He is seeking after his self, though he does not know it. ... The more one understands oneself, the more one finds that everything that one finds lacking in others is also lacking in oneself.
Does a person become less by finding faults in oneself?
No, he becomes greater, for he not only finds that the faults which are in others are also to be found in him, but that all merits of the others are also his own merits.
With faults and merits he becomes more complete, he does not become less.

What a great treasure it is when a man has realized that in him are to be found all the merits and all the faults which exist in the world, and that he can cultivate all that he wishes to cultivate, and to cut away all that should be removed!
It is like rooting out the weeds and sowing the seeds of flowers and fruits.
One finds that all is in oneself, and that one can cultivate in oneself what he wishes.
A world opens for the man who begins to look within himself, for it is not a little plot of ground that he has to cultivate, he has a world to make of himself and to make a world is sufficient occupation to live for.
What more does one want? Many think that life is not interesting because they make nothing, but they do not realize that they have to make a world, that they are making a world, either ignorantly or wisely.
If they make a world ignorantly then that world is their captivity, if they make a world wisely then that world is their paradise.
-- Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:


The wise man submits to conditions when he is helpless, bowing to the will of God. But the evil that is avoidable he roots out without sparing one single moment or effort. -- Bowl of Saki