The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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You will see around you that those who live and those who help others to live, are the ones who look forward in life with hope and courage. It is they whom one can call living beings. But there are others who do not live, for they do not look forward to the life before them; they have lost hope. In order to be saved, they will cling to the hopeful, but if the hopeful also had a limited hope then they would sink with them. Such souls are as dead. Those who lack hope and courage in life lack a sort of energy of spirit. The standard of health as the physician understands it today is an energetic, robust body, but the standard of real health is the health of the spirit; not only the body is living, but the spirit is living. The one who is open to appreciate all, to feel encouraged to do all that comes in his way; who feels joyful, hopeful, ready to accomplish his duty, ready to suffer pain that comes to him; ready to take up responsibility, ready to answer the demands as a soldier on the battlefield; this one shows the spirit hidden within the body. If that condition is lacking, then a person is lacking perfect health and must be helped to gain that energy.


 
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