The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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What is education, what is culture, what is self-development? It is all art, it is the way for individuality to culminate into personality. In ancient times the religious education and human culture in every form mainly had the culture of the personality as their central theme. Today we are expected to learn mathematics, geography, history and other things, but never the art of personality which is of the greatest use in life.

  • Apart from its spiritual significance, we see in our everyday life that a salesman who is pleasant, courteous and well-mannered is successful.
  • If he lacks manner he will be repellent; he may have all kinds of beautiful things in his shop, he will have no success.
  • If a clerk in an office, a secretary, an assistant, a supervisor has a charming personality, a kindly manner, a sympathetic attitude, he will win the affection of all; everything will be light, everything will go smoothly.
  • If he lacks the art of personality, he may have all qualifications, he may be a most capable person, yet things will not run smoothly.
  • A person, whether man or woman, may be a barrister, a solicitor, a doctor, a most qualified individual, but if the art of personality is not developed he will be disagreeable and unpleasant - in his own home and in all walks of life.

 
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