The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1974). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, Four Plays”, p.144, Library of Alexandria
