Everything one expresses in one's art, painting, verse and music is the reproduction of the mind. Not only that, but one's choice, one's likes and dislikes, one's habits, all show what is the state of one's mind. Everything one says or does shows the lines already traced in one's mind. There is no exaggeration in the saying that one's face is the mirror of the heart. It seems as if the mind begins to speak through every particle of the body. Since the head is the more predominant factor, the expression of a person tells most about the condition of one's mind.
No doubt it is difficult to give a certain rule of reading this language expressed in the face, form or movements, but two things can help one to understand it: keen observation to study human nature, and developed intuition. Then one begins to have a sort of key to this language. But if you ask a person. she cannot express it. From different compositions of composers one can imagine their character, their life and state of mind. As in the science of sound there is a tone and an overtone, so in the music of a certain composer there is a sense which stands together with the music. The one who hears the notes only enjoys the music. The one who understands the sense knows the mind of the composer. So the verse is the soul of the poet. The poetry is not only poetry, for it has its music behind. The one who reads the verse only enjoys the poetry. But the one who comprehends the sense in it enjoys the music of this poetry.
One who asks a question of oneself on hearing a certain word, on seeing a certain movement, on observing a certain expression in a face, must receive an answer from one's intuition, telling one the cause of this effect which manifests outwardly. In this way the Sufis makes their way for their journey in the inner world.
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