The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There is warmth in fire, and there is a greater warmth in feeling. The presence of a person with warm feelings can create an atmosphere of warmth, and the presence of the cold-hearted can freeze one. No doubt warmth of heart is not the only quality the healer needs, he must have the power to heal, besides concentration and a desire to heal; but at the same time it is the name of Christ that is known as that of the Messiah. Messiah in the East means healer, and for a Messiah the power of love is the first quality, love in the form of sympathy. One sympathizes with another, thinking perhaps, "He is my relation, friend, or acquaintance", but when sympathy develops to its fullest extent one begins to see in everybody "I", "myself", and the pain of everybody one begins to feel as one's own pain.


 
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