From Sai InnerViews -Inspired writings

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Swami to author:

 

"Always reach for your highest."

 

author: And when I'm feeling low, what then?

 

Swami: "reach for your highest."

 

Below are a selection of writings that inspired me while on my

visits to Sathya Sai Baba.

 

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The Teacher

 

True teaching is always an epiphany:

sometimes a clap of thunder...

but often only a whisper, easily missed.

 

Author Unknown

 

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The message below was written by the Saint Augustine.

 

 

But when I love, what do I love? It is not physical beauty nor

temporal glory not the brightness of light dear to earthly eyes, nor

the sweet melodies of all kinds of songs, nor the gentle odour of

flowers and ointments and perfumes, nor manna or honey, nor limbs

welcoming the embraces of the flesh; it is not these I love when I

love my God.

 

Yet, there is a light and there is food, and a kind of embrace when

I love my God - a light, voice, odour, food, embrace of my inner

man, where my soul is floodlit by light which space cannot contain,

where there is sound that time cannot seize, where there is a

perfume which no breeze disperses, where there is a taste for food

no amount of eating can lessen, and where there is a bond of union

that no satiety can part.

 

That is what I love, when I love my God.

 

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I send letters to my lover

As though he were in another land.

Oh, how I forget that He resides here in my eyes, in my heart,

receiving messages of my love - at all times!

 

Kabir

 

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All things are possible to him who believes,

they are less difficult to him who hopes,

they are easier to him who loves,

and still more easy to him who practises and

perseveres in these three virtues."

 

- Brother Lawrence

 

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I thought that I had arrived at the very throne of God and I said to

it:

 

"O throne, they tell us that God rests upon thee."

 

"O Bayasid," replied the throne,

 

"we are told here that He dwells in a humble heart."

 

- Bayazid Bistami