The Bowl of Saki Commentary

It is from the view of God that real tolerance comes. This is the stage of the enlightened who understand all. If a person were all heart, one would find that they were also all eye. In Djabrut, if one can be said to have a body (let us call it a spiritual body), that body emits light and receives light from every portion of its surface. Its functions are not differentiated. Furthermore, as soon as one thinks of another, as soon as a person loves another, instantly they are as one. They may appear separate at other moments but then they are one.

This is hard to understand from the physical or mental points of view, for in these planes the life is very different; besides which, activity depends to a certain extent on our differences, even though these differences cause harmonies. Yet so long as there are differences there is the opportunity for disharmony.

The heart point of view of the sage is to regard all opinions as offspring of mind, and knowing that spiritual evolution is not a mental process-rather a sloughing of mind-it is not against any special opinion, thought, or belief that the sage is opposed, but against mental centering in itself. And the only way the sage can oppose it is to give all love and tenderness toward all people, regardless of opinions, knowing there is no such thing as right opinion and wrong opinion, that "opining" itself leads to difficulties.