Message #45481

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The one who can live up to his ideal is the king of life; he who cannot live up to it is life's slave.

    Bowl of Saki, February 28, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

The ideal life is at least to try to live up to one's ideal. But in order to have an ideal one must first awaken to an ideal. Not everyone possesses an ideal; many people do not know of it. It is no exaggeration to say that the wars and disasters we have gone through, the unrest that all feel, and the disagreement among the people which is sometimes seen and sometimes not seen, are all caused by one thing and that is the lack of an ideal.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VI/VI_15.htm

I would respond to this that many of us have an ideal but our ideals have railroaded us out of town by others who do not care to hear them. Worst yet in many countries people are imprisoned, poisoned and murdered because others do not want their ideals to be heard.

I think all that can be done is to be a person of character - like Navalny - and attempt to live our ideals. He has been quite an example to me. And his wife continues his legacy!