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Hazrat Inayat Khan

The thought attached to things is a vibratory or life power.  From a mystical conception vibrations may be considered to have 3 aspects; audible, visible and perceptible.  Now the vibrations put into an object are neither audible nor visible, they are only perceptible.  Perceptible to what?  To the intuitive faculty of man.  But it is not meant by this that the one who lacks intuitive faculty does not perceive it.  He perceives it too, but unconsciously.............

Every place where a person sits and thinks for a moment on any subject takes in the thought of man; it takes the record of what has been spoken, so that no man can hide his thought or feeling.  It is recorded even in the seat he has been sitting on while thinking and many persons, by sitting in that place, begin to feel it.  Sometimes, the moment he sits on a certain seat, a person may feel a thought quite foreign to him, a feeling which does not belong to him, because on that seat there was that thought vibrating.  As a seat can hold the vibrations of the thought for a much longer time than the life of the person who has thought or has spoken, so an influence remains in every place where one sits, where one lives, where one thinks or feels, where one rejoices, or where one sorrows.  This voice continues for a time incomparably longer than the life of the person who spoke or thought there.............

In remote places, sometimes, … there is a kind of overtone which is most gentle and soothing, for the  voices [of past inhabitants] have gone and the vibration remains as an atmosphere.  If the place has always been a desert, it is still more elevating, because it has its own natural atmosphere which is most uplifting.  And if some travellers have passed through it and if this brings their voice to us, even that is much better than what one perceives and feels in cities, in towns, because in nature man is quite a different person.