Thanks 😊 Eric I have found in my life that I have met many wonderful people that have had a great impact on my life and it’s course and direction. I believe that our vocation and experiences are often directed by higher powers then our personal desires when we are in tune with those higher powers. Your last entries about Vocation motivated me to start a separate thread on it. It came from your Bowl of Saki thread which I frequently read and often find nuggets of wisdom there that correlate with various events happening in my life and those I come into contact.
Every being has a definite vocation and his vocation is the light that illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is as a lamp unlit.
Bowl of Saki, June 26, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Steve because yesterdays message spurred something in you- here is the expanded commentary,
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every being has a definite vocation, and his vocation is the light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is a lamp unlit. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion.
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https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_I_2.htmWe find with many people that somehow they never happen to find their life's vocation. And what happens then is that in the end they consider their life a failure. All through their life they go from one thing to another, yet as they do not know their life's object they can accomplish so little. When people ask why they do not succeed, the answer is: because they have not yet found their object. As soon as a person has found his life's object he begins to feel at home in this world, where before he had felt himself in a strange world. No sooner has a person found his way than he will prove to be fortunate, because all the things he wants to accomplish will come by themselves.
Even if the whole world were against him, he will get such a power that he can hold on to his object against anything. He will get such a patience that when he is on the way to his object no misfortune will discourage him. There is no doubt that as long as he has not found it he will go from one thing to another, and again to another; and he will think that life is against him. Then he will begin to find fault with individuals, conditions, plans, the climate, with everything. Thus what is called fortunate or successful is really having the right object. When a person is wearing clothes which were not made for him, he says they are too wide or too short, but when they are his clothes he feels comfortable in them. Everyone should therefore be given freedom to choose his object in life. And if he finds his object one knows that he is on the right path.
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https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VI/VI_2.htm
