Opposites...

Things that seem real to an average person are unreal in the eyes
of the mystic, and the things that seem unreal in the eyes of the
average person are real in the eyes of the mystic. Little things
that people take to heart will seem to him of little importance;
things that people become confused with will become clear to him;
things that matter so much to everyone will not matter to him; many
things that frighten and horrify people will not have the same effect
upon him; disappointments and failures will not take away his hope
and courage. His thought, speech, and action change: as his outlook
becomes wide, so everything he says or does will be different. In the
first place mystical life is a puzzle, in the second place a
bewilderment, and in the third place a miracle. There comes a time
when all that he had accepted in his mind , all that he believed in,
appears to be quite the opposite of what they seemed. Imagine an
evolved person being more bewildered than an unevolved one. And yet
it is so, for at this stage a man begins to see that things are not
as they seem.

From the Teachings of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

selected & arranged by
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT KHAN