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133. Those who accomplish great works and those who are successful in everything they undertake are possessors of strong will. Will develops concentration, and concentration develops will.
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132. Will-power plays the most important role in concentration upon a visualized image. Its action is first to provide the impulse of thought which opens the storehouse of memory,
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131. Concentration deserves to be an important study and practice in our lives, for it stands as the basic mechanism of every yoga system since the beginning of time.
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130. Concentration is the secret of all accomplishment in ourselves, in our affairs, and in our relationships with others. As simple as it is, we only feel the importance of this subject to the
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129. In dreams, when the light of intelligence is on standby and the power of the will is slumbering, the regrouping of the thought-fragments lacks coordination, which explains the unreality of
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128. Everything perceived through the five senses is stored deep down in the memory, but unless it is actively called upon it remains disorganized. When wanted, however, all the pieces are
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127. Religion offers a help to realize the unlimited Truth, but that same help is shaped into various limited forms and garbs by those who do not see that the means to attain an objective is not
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126. In addition to the impressions received through the five senses, there are also much finer ones which vibrate within the heart, and just as a magnet holds particles of metal by the power of
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125. An impression is the shadow of events received through the five senses and traced automatically upon the screen of the mind, where line, color and dimension are coordinated to form an
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123. During Fikar, while inhaling, one mentally absorbs the vibrations of a chosen Wazifa. While holding the breath, one mentally assimilates those vibrations. While exhaling, one renders
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122. When relating the Fikar practice to one’s feelings, there is a holding of the breath between the inhalation and the exhalation. If the inhalation takes four beats and the exhalation also
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121. Once one is awakened to the precious help which the Fikar practice offers in the way of securing a balanced condition in one’s entire being, one then feels the need to relate that technique
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120. The practice called Fikar helps to obtain mastery over one’s physical and mental conditions. This practice is a combination of rhythmic breathing together with the silent repetition of a
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119. When the breath is chaotic every initiative fails, the memory slumbers and the will-power seems to have crept aside; whereas when the breath is harmonious, the mind is then under control,
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118. Tout comme le rythme est la nature du mouvement, l’inspiration et l’expiration sont la puissance derrière toutes les actions.
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117. During Zikar, the body of the Zakir, intensely tuned to the rhythm, becomes itself the repeated word, the voice radiates great warmth and the breath of the Zakir becomes magnetic; as Shams
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116. The Sufis of all ages have expressed the Zikar with the words “La el la ha, el Allah hu” or “God alone exists,” repeated either in a spoken or a chanted meditation while gently rotating the
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115. Zikar, also called Mantra Yoga in Vedantic terms, is a Kalma Kalam, meaning a meditative, rhythmic repetition of the sacred name of God.
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114. For spiritual enlightenment the sacred attributes of God are invoked, and for character building appropriate words are used in the way of autosuggestion.
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113. To penetrate the depths of the heart is the secret of the great powers, generated in the practice called Wazifa by the Sufis, and Mantram or Mantra Yoga in Vedantic terms,
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112. Words are the echo of thoughts, and thoughts are the echo of emotions, which finally find expression when the words are spoken. Conversely, words, which become images in the mind, can also
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111. Paradoxically, the Kemal condition produces failure in material activities but is the source of spiritual attunement where the annihilation of the self prevails. This is called in Hindu
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101. In reality there is no darkness. Life is light omnipotent and omnipresent. When spreading or scattered, light appears to be dim, but when gathered it becomes bright. Therefore, the practice
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100. Moses is known to have held light in the palms of his hands. Zoroaster and Christ are also often pictured with rays of light shining from the palms of the hands, which suggests the
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99. The five senses are like windows able to be opened or closed. When open, the senses receive impressions from the outside world such as those through the sense of smell, the sense of taste,
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98. There are three characteristic types of breath. In one, there is no distinguishable rhythmic count, which carries the risk of developing a chaotic disposition. In the second type of breath
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97. Since the breath is life itself, and since the influence of the five elements is coordinated through the power of the breath, it is clear that by developing mastery over its volume, length,
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96. When the breath happens to be under the spell of the creative energy Jelal, there is a natural tendency to act positively, to take decisions, to start projects and to defend one’s rights.
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95. Movement is induced by the law of attraction. Opposite forces, the creative or “Jelal” and the receptive or “Jemal,” seek to complete each other within the capacity of a third force, “Kemal,”
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94. It is along the flow of the incoming breath that the different characteristics inherent in the five elements are channeled by way of the five senses to the mind world. These energies, which
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