The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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When we go deeper into this subject we find that every vowel is suggestive of a certain feeling, and that therefore names and words have a certain effect upon the speaker and the listener apart from their meaning. For instance it is interesting to gather from the sound of the word why the flower should have been called flower and why the stone should have been called stone. We feel from the sound of stone that it is hard, solid; and we feel from the word flavor that it is soft and beautiful. Those who speak without any knowledge of tone and music, those who have no intuition of how to express their thoughts and feelings in a proper tone, lose a great deal in life; for it takes away much of the sense which they wish to express in their speech, and often it even suggests something quite different from what they had meant. We very often hear people say, "I told him over and over again, but he would not listen," but this may be because they were ignorant of the tone and music of speech. There is a psychological reason why he would not listen: perhaps the tone was not right or the music might not have been correct.


 
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