" The body is a garment of the soul.
The soul wears this garment in order to stand the weather of that particular sphere."
The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Shambala, Boston & London, 1999 p 116.
[b]"When the soul comes into the physical world, it receives an offering from the whole universe, and that offering is the body in which to function.
It is not offered to the soul only by the parents , but the ancestors, by the nation and race into which the soul is born, and by the whole human race.
This body is not only an offering by the human race, but it is an outcome of something that the whole world has produced for ages;
a clay which has been kneaded a thousand times over,
a clay which has been prepared so that in its development,
it has become more intelligent, more radiant, more living;
a clay which appeared first in the mineral kingdom,
which developed in the vegetable kingdom,
which then appeared as the animal kingdom and
which was finished in the making of that body
which is offered to the new coming human soul."[/b]
The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Shambala, Boston & London, 1999 p 118.
Affirmation: My body is my home, a garment for my soul