The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Success, failure, progress, standstill, one's state of being, it all comes from the condition that a person is experiencing within himself. A man of common sense will say, "For this reason or for that reason you have met with success or failure." A person who is clairvoyant will say, "Because a spirit or a ghost has said this or that, the conditions must be worse or better." The astrologer will say, "Because this star is in its house or not in its house, you are experiencing such or such conditions." But according to the Sufi idea the condition of life around one depends absolutely on the condition of one's inner self. So what is needed to change the conditions in outer life, or to tune oneself, is to work with one's inner self in order to bring about the necessary balance.


 
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