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2.Came to believe that a
Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
2) "We come to believe that
a power greater than our limited conscious self can redeem and restore
us to our true inner nature and that outside of the Divine reality, there
is no reality."
"Then there is the desire
for power. Man desires power, because it is natural for him to gain. Somewhere
a power is hidden in him, he cannot help it; but man is powerless in spite
of the power which is hidden in him. The powerlessness, the experience
of being powerless, is his ignorance of the power within him. In order
to open the doors, in order to see the power he has in store, it is necessary
to seek the kingdom of God, as it is said in the Bible, for then he will
find his divine heritage which is all power.
True power is not in trying
to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power?
It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change
is a kind of struggle with one's false self. When the false self is crucified,
then the true self is resurrected. Before the world this crucifixion appears
to be lack of power, but in truth all power is attained by this resurrection."
THE ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS - THE AIM OF LIFE - HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
The nature of being in tune with
the infinite is this: comparing our soul to a string of an instrument,
it is tied at both ends; one is the infinite, and the other is the finite.
When a person is conscious all the time of the finite then he is tuned
to the finite, while the one who is conscious of the infinite is tuned
to the infinite. Being in tune with the former makes us limited, weak,
hopeless, and powerless; but by being in tune with the latter we obtain
the power and strength that will pull us through life in whatever adverse
conditions may arise. THE ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS - WHAT IS WANTED IN LIFE
- HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
STEP TWO STUDY
The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - Book 1 -The
Purpose of Life - Chapter 4