The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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When I left India and went straight to New York my greatest astonishment was to see that in every train, bus, or car, every man had a newspaper in his hand. And what is a newspaper generally for? To amuse the most ordinary man in the street. Once a reporter came to see me and asked me about my philosophical ideas. I explained some of them to him; but the next day when I read his newspaper, I saw that everything that I had said was turned upside down. I was most disappointed. I went to the journalist and said, "What did I tell you, and what did you make of it?" He said, "If l had written in the paper what you said nobody would understand it. We have to please the man in the street." Now imagine, a professor, a doctor, a lawyer, a business man, all reading the same thing that the man in the street reads! This shows where man's thought is today. What he calls education is only book-learning; but what we need today is learning from life, for if we want to gain a thorough education it can only be gained by a keen observation of life.


 
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