Spirit and Matter...

There is a conflict between spirit and matter.

Matter absorbs the spirit in order to exist, and the spirit assimilates matter, for its own property.

The whole of manifestation may thus be regarded as a continual conflict between spirit and matter,

the spirit developing into matter on the one hand and assimilating matter on the other:

the former being called activity and the latter silence, or construction and destruction, or life and death.


From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN