How far is man granted the power of mastering his destiny and how far does he stand in this life helpless? The answer is that a soul is born on earth helpless, and out of this helplessness it grows and then learns to help itself. Man has two aspects of being: the servant aspect and the master aspect. When only the servant aspect is nourished and the master aspect is not, then the master aspect of his being longs to be master, and cannot. There is a stage of evolution in which man is the engineer who works with the machines, but the man who has not realized the kingdom of heaven within him is as a machine.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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