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CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 12
“A great person will stretch your mind to the breadth of his own heart, and a small person will narrow it to the size of his own outlook.”  Gayan of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Annotation by Cherag Hamid Touchon

“Conciliation is not only the moral of the Sufi: it is the sign of the Sufi. This virtue is not learned and practiced easily, for it needs not only goodwill but wisdom. The talent of the diplomat consists in bringing about such results as are desirable with mutual agreement. Disagreement is easy; among the lower creation one sees it so often; it is agreement that is difficult, for it needs a wider outlook which is the true sign of spirituality. Narrowness of outlook makes man's vision small; the person with a narrow outlook cannot easily agree with another. There is always a meeting ground for two people, however much they differ in thought; but the meeting-ground may be far off, and when that is so a man is not always willing to take the trouble to go so far in order to come to an agreement. Very often this is due to his lack of patience. What generally happens is that each wants the other to meet him at the place where he is standing; there is no desire on either part to move from the spot.
 This does not mean that in order to become a real Sufi one should give up one's own ideas in order to agree with someone else; and there is no advantage in always being lenient towards every thought that comes from another, nor in erasing one's own ideas from one's heart; that is not conciliation. The one who is able to listen to another is the one who will make another listen to him. The one who finds it easy to agree with another will have the power of making another agree easily with him. Therefore in doing so one really gains in spite of the apparent loss which might sometimes occur. When a man is able to see both from his own point of view and from that of another, he has complete vision and a clear insight; he so to speak sees with both eyes.” The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan – The Alchemy of Happiness -  The Development of Personality

A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation)

However many breathes seem appropriate

On the in breath 
"OPEN OUR HEARTS "

On the out breath: 
"GIVE US THY GREAT GOODNESS"