"We should not try to become a flower in order to feel superior to a thorn, but only for the benefit of others. ....It is easy to say, 'You have hurt me, insulted me, disturbed me, troubled me.' ...one does better to ask oneself if one has not harmed or disturbed someone else."
"...vanity is the power which can lead man either to good or bad. It is the living spark of the ego: the soberness of the ego is divine vanity,* and the intoxication of the ego is the conceit of man."
"Worrying comes from self-pity and fear, and fear is made of the clouds of ignorance; the light will dissolve it. Humor is the sign of light: when the light from above touches the mind it tickles the mind, and it is the tickling of the mind which produces humor."
Hazrat Inayat Khan, "The Art of Being and Becoming"
* divine vanity: God's satisfaction in the manifestation created = the joy of accomplishment.
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