“Nobody in the world can prove to be your ideal unless you make yourself one.”
Hazrat Inyan Khan
Gayan
I wonder if Murshid (a word which means teacher/mentor/guide) would have approved of this quote becoming good dating advice?
I suspect he’d have smiled and patted me on the head and told me to keep meditating. LOL!
I’m being flippant, but I do see this as words to live by.
I feel so grateful today.
No especial reason, I don’t think.
I just feel that way and I’m savoring it.
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June 18, 2009 at 6:13 am
Ah, it’s good to be lighthearted and having fun about serious matters at times, isn’t it? We would get insane without laughter I guess. Seems to me your mind has been very busy lately again, so you do need to laugh about things to keep them into perspective! Do the growing understanding and writing about switching make you feel this way also? You’ve so many things to discover and explore, that’s definitely something to be grateful for! (hugs)
Hello Louise. *smiles* I’m a lighthearted person in general. I love to laugh. I love to smile. I delight in the little things. I think humor is a natural extension of gratitude and that its a holy blessing. We all need it and find it natural when we’re in our authentic center I think. Don’t you? Those are good questions…Worthy of a post all their own. *smiles*
June 18, 2009 at 8:38 am
What a fabulous quote!
And I just noticed that the banner changed (again), sometime some while ago. Great!
Hello Sera! Thank you. I love it too. And yes. The banner has been back to its original choice. I do love my Christabel. *smiles*
June 18, 2009 at 9:01 am
So very true and I would be sent back to meditation as well. *giggles*
((hugs))
*grins* Yeah. I think just about everyone would…but what’s an inside joke for most people who study a mystical tradition in great depth is to understand that when you truly start getting things right? All that loving Divine energy stirs the libido something fierce. Its something every student must contend with. So he’d have been highly amused by such a statement from his student and would have directed me to keep working with focus until I could control my libido better. *grins*
June 18, 2009 at 9:05 am
Often I over indulge at being flipant. The curse of being single again. So puting flipant in perspective of the viewer is circumspect. Makes savoring a good thing.
From one fellow over indulger to another, keep it comin…Sooner or later we’ll have only the converted around and then the real revelry will begin. *winks*
June 18, 2009 at 11:54 am
I’m thinking I want to have what I want being imperfect. ‘Cuz I’m worth it even then.
*grins* Amen to that. *winks*
June 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I think he would chuckle first before patting you on the head..
~laughing~
thinking I need a little more meditation myself…
*twinkling eyes* Ah…you get me on that inside joke eh? You usually do…Its what I sooo love about you. ((big happy hugs))
June 18, 2009 at 5:50 pm
oh dear…I am chuckling at fab….over indulge at being flipant….I have to be very careful about “flipant” as a way of life.
Baby cakes….that what I love about you!! Keep it comin’
June 18, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Shannee,
This made me smile. Though, I do not think we have to be perfect, finding our ideal may mean finding someone as flawed as we are. J may not be everyone’s idea of perfection or ideal (don’t tell him), but he is MY ideal. His flaws make him human and they make me love him even more. I might judge them in some men, but in him they are endearing. Conversely, he finds me beautiful and smart (and I try not to let him find out the truth).
However, in terms of self-actualization, these are wonderful words to live by. As for dating, yes, more meditating might be in order.
Ah…well that’s just half of Murshid’s point really…You’d have to understand the Sufi mind to know the concept of Perfectly imperfect. We are exactly as we were made and by our loving design and our need to be our best…we are perfectly imperfect and those we seek in genuine unconditional love are also perfectly imperfect. *winks* ((big hugs)) Yeah…I think more meditating is in order too. *wicked grins*
June 19, 2009 at 4:26 am
Ty Rosa for sharing a “chuckle”. Gosh what a great place this is, its like we are all having coffee. Shannee ty for a great quote.
Gee fab…I do think that’s one of the very best compliments this blog has ever received. Thank you. Truly.
June 20, 2009 at 4:07 am
Very nice blog loved everything about it. So very stunning!
Why thank you. Blessings and welcome to my blog. *smiles*