Communion...

When man is separated from God in his thought, his belief is of no use, his
worship is of little use.

Bowl of Saki, October 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

God and man are like the two ends of one line. When a believer in God conceives
of God as a separate entity and of man as a being separate from Him, he makes
himself an exile, an exile from the kingdom of God. He holds fast to the form of
God created by himself, and he does not reach the Spirit of God. However good
and virtuous he has been in life, however religious in his actions, he has not
fulfilled the purpose of his life. ...

Those who think that God is not outside but only within are as wrong as those
who believe that God is not within but only outside. In fact God is both inside
and outside, but it is very necessary to begin by believing in that God outside.
From our childhood we have learned everything outside. We learn what the eye is
by looking at the eyes of others; everything we see in ourselves we have always
learned from outside.

So even in order to learn to see God we must begin by seeing God outside: as the
Creator, the Judge, the Knower of all things, the forgiver; and when we have
understood Him better, the next step is that the God that we have always seen
outside we now also find within, and that completes our worship. If we have only
found Him outside then we are His worshippers, but we remain separate from him
and there is no communion, which is the purpose of life.