The Sacred is Out There (and in here)

The whole purpose of your life is to make yourself

ready to understand what God is, what your

fellow man is, what the nature of man is, what life is.

Now coming to a still greater secret of life I want

to answer the question: ... how can we grow to read

and understand the message that life speaks

through all its names and forms?

The answer is that by the opening of the eyes you can see,

things ...so by the opening of the heart, you can understand things.

As long as the heart is closed, you cannot understand

things.

The secret is that, when the ears ... and the eyes ...

of the heart are open, all planes of the world are open,

all names are open, ... all secrets, all mysteries ...

are unfolded. "

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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how do we come to understand

Sacred love

as it lives within our souls

as it gently blossoms in the heart of another?

how do we find that

thin thread that connects us to

that which forms us and gives us breath?

Ah, we must be porous

you and I

ears and eyes

and hands wide open

heart wide open

soul

wide open

as Sacred Presence glows

in an autumn

leaf