The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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But there are two ways in which the will-power works: firstly, when it is lighted with the light of intelligence; secondly, when it is not so lighted, but works by itself. When it works by itself, we call it accidental. We do things accidentally which we have not intended to do. But when will-power makes our mind and body work consciously, then the light of intelligence is followed and the will-power is acting consciously. This is the difference between various happenings. In the one we are conscious of what we are thinking, we are conscious of what we are speaking and of what we are doing in proportion to our willpower and to the light that is thrown upon it from the light of our intelligence. But we have acted without will-power when we have to say, "I have done something I should not have done; I have said something I should not have said; I have thought something which I should not have thought." When a person says, "What I did is terrible; I said something I should not have said", it means that during the time he said or did it the will-power was there, but the strength and light of intelligence had not fallen upon it to the extent to which they should.


 
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