The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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And now coming to the third stage of belief, and that belief is that it is not because someone says so, nor is it because the crowd says so, but, "I think so, that is why I believe it." That is a wonderful belief. But if a person who is simple and unevolved, if he thought, "What I believe or what I reason is the right thing," and did not believe in the authority or in the crowd, instead of going upwards, he would be going downwards. And very often it happens that a simple one is more fixed in his idea than a person who is reasoning. Very often a simple person has no reason and yet he is fixed in his idea; and you may bring before him any reason, he will not listen to it. He says, "That is what I believe, what the crowd believes, I do not care."


 
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