The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Since each finds its completion in the other, these two forces exercise an attraction upon each other. By the very nature of things the negative cannot but be attracted by its positive aspect; and the positive is inevitably attracted towards its negative aspect. The positive is indeed the first to feel attraction; for it is always seeking scope for expression and reaching out towards that in which it finds its balance; and it finds in the negative that pliability for which it searches with the whole strength of its being, in its demand for response. The negative therefore represents beauty while the positive represents power. For power is not of itself beautiful. Power is attracted towards beauty; its desire may be called beauty; and again its power becomes powerless before beauty.


 
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