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What is religion to the mystic? The religion of the mystic is a steady progress towards unity. How is this progress made? In two ways.

In the first way, the mystic sees one’s self in others, in the good, in the bad, in all; and thus they expand the horizon of their vision. This study goes on throughout one’s lifetime; and as one progresses one comes closer to the oneness of all things.

The other way of developing is to become conscious of one’s own self in God and of God in one’s self, which means deepening the consciousness of out our innermost being. This process takes place in two directions: outwardly by being one with all we see; and inwardly, by being in touch with that one Life which is everlasting, by dissolving into it and by being conscious of that one Life.

The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all.

The phenomena of the radiance of the soul are apparent to the student of the human body. The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul. 

—Hazrat Inayat Khan

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