Short story: Quotes from a great Sufi master.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23736)
Australia
March 1, 2021 8:30pm CST
The Sufi Master, Sufat Ihanan Kkeneh had cancer. He was soon to die.
Over the many years, of his giving talks to his village people, he had put together, a short list of his own sayings, that he had used most over the years.
Here is his list:
The best method of loving is to have no method.
Thinking has little to do with Love.
Love must always act before you can think.
The silence of God’s blessing are heard in silence.
Blindness is thinking only of yourself first.
You cannot heal when you resent another’s life, in any way.
Truth is one with God, so be one with God too, to know truth too.
Those who speak bad words outwardly live them inwardly too.
Life lives in love as much as you do.
Love lives in life as much as you do.
So, love fully to live fully.
Most of his talks had been about love, how to love, and about the inner truths that such loving can reveal to one steeped into love too.
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We should not allow life to tunnel us into one position, but be open to all other possibilities too.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
2 Mar 21
To love fully is a live fully resonates for me (so do many of the others but that one in particular). we are most living when we are sharing love most!
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
2 Mar 21
Yes, I agree. Loving brings us most to life, in the fullest of ways possible for us.
@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
2 Mar 21
@innertalks that is such a great way to put it!
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@RasmaSandra (97954)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Mar 21
I totally agree that the best way to live is to keep both eyes and ears open to all possibilities.
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
2 Mar 21
Yes, tunnel vision is a recipe for disaster in one's life.
We should never close off any doors, but examine the possibilities within there for us first.
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@kanuck1 (4424)
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3 Mar 21
@innertalks I have to ask. Are these quotes from a great Sufi master or from a humble Steve? 
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
3 Mar 21
@kanuck1 Ha, ha. I made up all of these quotes myself as a part of my short story. I like to give people things to think about.
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
2 Mar 21
There is a religion, called Sufism, the mystical branch of Islamism. A Sufi master is a teacher level person in that spiritual teaching.
Each Religion seems to have their more refined, higher level, or mystical sides to them.
The Gnostics were such a sect in early Christianism, and today we have one called the SJ's, or the Society of Jesus order/sect, in the Catholic Church, for example.
@Shiva49 (28377)
• Singapore
2 Mar 21
Very thoughtful and meaningful sayings.
We need to just do it - a life of loving without borders embracing what we see and don't.
Then setbacks are imaginary like the present pandemic which incarcerated all but gave time to ponder and start loving with all sincerity.
Stop the rhetoric to implant others views but listen to heart connected to the soul whispering.
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
2 Mar 21
Yes, setbacks can be viewed as imaginary, and embracing all borders, including all that can happen to us, in our horizons, converts setbacks to set-forwards instead.
A setback then is more an imaginary label that we attach to certain life events, but whatever we call them, each life event is very real to us at that time too.
When we ponder truly, we will always see the shine of love, shining out from all dark spots in our lives too.
@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
3 Mar 21
@Shiva49 Yes, if we slip one step backwards, we should try to push forward, with two steps forwards, and to try to realise too, that really there are no steps backwards, as all steps are really always moving us forwards, at all times in a way, that we just have to figure out, for ourselves, at times.
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@Shiva49 (28377)
• Singapore
3 Mar 21
@innertalks Yes Steve, we need to see setbacks as set-forwards.
Instead of whining, griping, we need to take the bull by the horns and in the end make a leap forward (with the bull doing its part too!) 
When we take setbacks as challenges we are tested of our mettle.
We then realize our true potential with a life lived to look back upon.
When we take setbacks as challenges we are tested of our mettle.
We then realize our true potential with a life lived to look back upon.1 person likes this
@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
3 Mar 21
Thanks, for your praise, and appreciative comments, but it is only a form of a fiction piece, or short story, written up like that.
I made it all up myself.
I like to change my writing styles a bit sometimes.
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