New
Year's Greeting from Hidayat Inayat Khan
2006
The all-pervading "Goal" drives each of us without
mercy into the Future, while at the same time hurling us into the
ever-receding Past; and in our illusion of the Present, the magic
game of Time deceives that Eternity, where the opposite poles Spirit
and Matter meet in a continuum of space, inspiring our speculative
concepts of reality or unreality, which are just only the reflections
of our own
point of view.
There is no experience in life which is really worthless,
and there is not one moment which is really wasted, providing one
is wise enough to carefully assemble the elements of past memories
and learn from these, with the idea of accomplishing one's life's
purpose. As we proceed courageously through the darkness of the
clouds of such concepts as preconceived ideas, communicating with
each in their own language, and steadfastly displaying the banner
of "Spiritual Liberty", our example could be interpreted
as an invitation to the privilege of becoming living altars of all
beliefs, while firmly holding on to the only secret that there is
to
inner peace, to happiness, and to spirituality: "The Supremacy
of Truth", which cannot be defined in speculative human terminology.
Although one's vision of right and wrong does not always
correspond to that of others, yet each time that we set aside our
own ego, even for a moment, we then offer a bit of our heart, and
in return, the light of the "Spirit of Guidance" becomes
brighter and brighter, clearing away the shadows of our limitations,
as we sail on the
great waters of Life, heading toward the unknown, where one may
perhaps begin to realize that the sailor is at the same time the
all –pervading "Goal".
Hidayat Inayat-Khan