Joy and sorrow both are for each other. If it were not for joy, sorrow could not
be; and if it were not for sorrow, joy could not be experienced.
Bowl of Saki, September 1, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Life is differentiated by the pairs of opposites.
If there was no pain one would not enjoy the experience of joy. It is pain which
helps one to experience joy. Everything is distinguished by its opposite. The
one who feels pain deeply is more capable of experiencing joy. And personally,
if you were to ask me about pain, I should say that if there was no pain life
would be most uninteresting to me. For it is by pain the heart is penetrated,
and the sensation of pain is deeper joy. Without pain the great musicians and
poets and dreamers and thinkers would not have reached that stage which they
reached and from which moved the world. If they always had joy, they would not
have touched the depths of life.
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