namaste !
thank you for your teachings murshid hazrat khan
prayers to sanctify !
Do not bemoan the past, do not worry about the future, but try to make the best of today.
Bowl of Saki, July 11, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat KhanThere is not anything one should not be ready to tolerate, and there is nobody whom one should not forgive. Never doubt those whom you trust; never hate those whom you love; never cast down those whom you once raise in your estimation. Wish to make friends with everyone you meet; make an effort to gain the friendship of those you find difficult ... No one is either higher or lower than oneself. In all sources that fulfill one's need, one may see one source, God, the only source; and in admiring and in bowing before and in loving anyone, one may consider one is doing it to God. In sorrow one may look to God, and in joy one may thank Him. One does not bemoan the past, nor worry about the future; one tries only to make the best of today. One should know no failure, for even in a fall there is a stepping-stone to rise.
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http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_I_2.htmIn Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam: 'O my Beloved, fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears. Why, tomorrow I may be myself, with yesterday's sev'n thousand years!' By this he means: Make the best of this moment; it is now that you can clearly see eternity, if you live in this moment. But if you keep the world of the past or the world of the future before you, you do not live in eternity but in a limited world. In other words, live neither in the past nor in the future, but in eternity. It is now that we should try to discover that happiness which is to be found in the freedom of the soul.
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http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIIIa/VIIIa_1_1.htm ~~~ Do not bemoan the past, do not worry about the future, but try to make the best of ftoday.
Eric such wonderful wisdom. At times we look to the past and find links with the present Friends from the past often come back into our life and bring much joy. However if we do not reach into the past we may not avail ourselves of the opportunity. I have noticed that some friends seem to be linked to some remote distant past. when they reunite they often have a stronger bond and find out that they have come to similar places in their spiritual unfoldment.
Sometimes this symbiosis comes as a pleasant suprise. Yet it is obvious that someone has to initiate it for its manifestation. This often occurs because of a recognition that our past is linked up to the present and the future is manifested out of the present. Time itself is not inherently good or bad it is all in how we use it or abuse. Like the fabric of reality itself; it is one more illusion that
we recognize as part of our connection to our path with others in our unfolding awareness.
There is a time for everything and a time for now.
