The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The mind is just like a restive horse. Bring a wild horse and yoke it to a carriage; it is such a strange experience for it that it will kick and jump and run and try to destroy the carriage. So it is a weight for the mind to carry when you make it take one thought and hold it for a while. It is then that the mind becomes restless, because it is not accustomed to discipline. There is a thought that the mind will hold by itself: a thought of disappointment, or pain, or grief, of sorrow or failure. The mind will hold it so fast that you cannot take it away from its grip; the mind holds it by itself. But when you ask the mind to hold a particular thought, then the mind will not hold it; it says: "I am not your servant, sir!'


 
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