The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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For example, a child said to its guardian, "I would like to have a magic wand. Where could I get it?" The guardian said, "If you had a magic wand what would you do with it?" The child answered, "I heard that if a person has a magic wand, he has only to wave it and everything will come." So the guardian said, "What do you wish?" At first the child hesitated, because he felt very shy about telling his wish, but in the end he expressed his wish. As soon as the guardian knew he said, "You do not need a magic wand; the wish itself is a power if you can think about it." The child said, "I always think about it." The guardian said, "Think about it still more." It is not giving a child a new thought, but just strengthening its thought. From that moment the child who was looking for a magic wand thought the magic wand was in itself; that if it thought about the magic wand it would get what it wanted.


 
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