2/mental record. Therefore, it is clear that there is the risk of becoming a slave of the power of concentration if one is unable to delete unwanted thoughts.

13/Buddhist will all see the same immensity. It is not limited to those of any one faith or creed. Gradually, as they unfold themselves and give proof of their response to the immensity of the knowledge, they are asked to go forward, face to face with their Lord.

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12/person says, 'When I look
at the horizon from the top of the mountain I become dizzy. This immensity of space frightens me,' he should not look at it. But if it does not make one dizzy it is a great joy to look at life from above. And from that position a Christian, Jew, Muslim and
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10/it is one and the same. One may look at it from the Christian, from the Buddhist, or from the Hindu point of view, but in
reality it is one point of view. One can either be small or large, either be false or true, either not know or know. As long as a
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9/accustomed to. But the journey to perfection means rising above limitations, rising so high that not only the horizon of one country, of one continent, is seen, but that of the whole world. The higher we rise, the wider becomes the horizon of our view.

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If we come face to face with truth,
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8/And the weakness of man has been that only what he is accustomed to consider as truth he takes to be truth, and anything he has not been accustomed to hear or think frightens him. Just like a person in a strange land, away from home, the soul is a stranger to the nature of things it is not 9/

7/of all is one soul, and truth is one truth under whatever religion it is hidden.

In reality there cannot be many religions; there is only one. There cannot be two truths; there cannot be two masters. As there is only one God and one religion, there is one master and there is one truth.
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6/instead of love. And this state of things has existed in all ages. Blinded by conventions and by the laws of his time and the customs of his people, man has ignored and opposed the truth. Yet at the same time the truth has never failed to make its impression upon the soul, because the soul 7/

5/sincerely think the Master was guilty? No, each one of them was more or less impressed by the truth of the message, yet torn by convention and custom, bound by laws, held fast by the religious authority that was in power. They could not express their sincere feelings, and so law governed 6/

4/one so long as that one is considered apart from all others.

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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

With all the opposition to the Master at the time when the Jews demanded his crucifixion, did those who were present
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3/us is greater than any conception we may hold. Without Ishk we would not be.

Yet Ishk is force not personality and it is not dependent upon personality. That person which is the source of Ishk is none other than God or Allah or Brahma or Darmakaya. This knowledge is vouchsafed to no
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2/ to another. One does not regard the fingers as having any reality apart from the body. So the life in one is that which unites one to another. Life is impossible without holding some relation to plant, animal or human. We are all
interdependent, showing that the reality in
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2/intensity of one’s devotion that secures the beauty of the achievement of one’s purpose.

13/nature. If the eyes and ears are open, the leaves of the trees become as pages of the Bible. If the heart is alive, the whole life becomes one single vision of His sublime beauty, speaking to us at every moment.

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12/him living, there is no place where he cannot be seen. Then everywhere the beloved master is ready to answer the cry of the soul coming from friend, father or teacher. And if we go a little further forward, we will find that the teacher speaks aloud, not only through living beings, but through13/

11/life, and recognizing the divine in man. But man has ignored the divine spirit that manifests in humanity, and always prefers an idol, a painting, a picture, to the living God, who is constantly before him. For the sage, the seer, the saint, and the yogi who begin to see the master, and see 12/

10/ answer you.' And those whose eyes are open do not need to go to a church and look at a picture or statue of the Lord. In the eyes of every infant, in the smile of every innocent child, they receive the blessing of Christ.

It only means changing one's outlook on
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