The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
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We have wiped this ideal from our minds. Where is the real democracy? The kingliness of greeting the dervish first, that is democracy. But when a man who is not evolved is pulling the most evolved down to his level, that is the wrong democracy; it is going downward instead of going upward. If mannerlessness and thoughtlessness can be democracy it takes away its real ideal and true spirit. Democracy is the result of aristocracy; when the spirit of aristocracy has evolved enough then it becomes democracy. Then a person thinks, "I am the equal of any person in the world; there is no person lower than me." But if a person says, "There is no one higher than me," that is not democracy. |