The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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Things are worthwhile when we seek them; only then do we know their value.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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But the real value is in the search, not in the things. In the story of "Sir Launfal" by the poet Lowell, the cup of Christ was as a cup of pure running water. It was not magical, but the search and the suffering brought the awakening. Actually no thing has great spiritual value, but to cease to search-to be unwilling to attain, not to look or strive-all these prevent God from manifesting and prevent us from returning to God's Source.