{"id":9698,"date":"2017-11-14T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T07:06:55","slug":"words-are-but-the-shells-of-thoughts-and-feelings-bowl-of-saki-november-14-by-hazrat-inayat-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sufi-message-of-hazrat-inayat-khan\/bowl-of-saki\/words-are-but-the-shells-of-thoughts-and-feelings-bowl-of-saki-november-14-by-hazrat-inayat-khan","title":{"rendered":"Words are but the shells of thoughts and feelings.(Bowl of Saki, November 14, by Hazrat Inayat Khan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"In spite of whatever wisdom we may have; we can make a mistake if we have no control over our words. And we can easily find examples of this truth; those who talk much have less power than those who talk little. For a talkative person may not be able to express an idea in a thousand words which those who are masters of silence express in one word. … What gives power over words? What gives the power that can be attained by silence? The answer is: it is will power which gives the control over words; it is silence which gives one the power of silence. It is restlessness when a person speaks too much. The more words are used to express an idea, the less powerful they become. It is a great pity that man so often thinks of saving pennies and never thinks of sparing words. It is like saving pebbles and throwing away pearls. An Indian poet says, ’Pearl-shell, what gives you your precious contents? Silence; for years my lips were closed.’<\/p>\n

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The mystic sees another significance of the mouth than for it to be a receptacle of food and drink.\u00a0\u00a0Through the mouth words of wisdom are expressed, sacred words repeated.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore the mouth is likened to a shell from which pearl-like words become manifest.\u00a0\u00a0As by the opening of the mouth words are expressed so by the closing of the mouth the word is drawn within, which becomes a living word compared with all other words, which are lost after once they are spoken.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~~~ ”Sangita II, Shaghal 9”, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~~~ Words are but the shells of thoughts and feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan In spite of whatever wisdom we may have; we can make a mistake if we have no control over our words. And we can easily find examples of this truth; those who talk much have less power than those who talk little. For a talkative person may not be able to express an idea in a thousand words which those who are masters of silence express in one word. … What gives power over words? What gives the power that can be attained by silence? The answer is: it is will power which gives the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bowl-of-saki","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40840,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions\/40840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}