A pure life and a clean conscience are as two wings attached to the soul.
Bowl of Saki, August 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
A pure life and a clean conscience are as bread and wine for the soul.
A pure life is the term used to express the effort of man to keep his spiritual
being untainted by the false values of the worldly life. It is the constant
search for the original self, the desire to reach it, and the means employed to
recover it, which alone can truly be called purity of life. ... When this purity
is reached man lives in virtue. Virtue is not a thing which he expresses or
experiences from time to time; his life itself is virtue. Every moment that God
is absent from the consciousness is considered by the sage to be a sin; for at
that moment the purity of the heart is poisoned. It is lack of life which is
sin: and it is purity of life which is virtue. It is of this purity that Jesus
Christ spoke when he said, 'Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see
God.'
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