The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I will tell you my own experience of childhood. In the different kingdoms in India, especially the orientals have more conventionality, more bowing and bending and greeting. And with new ideas in my head I thought, "Is it necessary?" It was a question. But at the same time one cannot help it; where there is a conventionality so much spread one cannot keep from it. But the moment I began to greet people in that conventional way, I began to enjoy it; the more I did it, the more I enjoyed it. Because it brought joy to another, but to yourself just the same, for the very fact that you give joy to another, you get it ten times back. It is automatic. That proudness, that conceit, that hardness, that rigidness of, "Oh no, I shall not respect, I shall not bow or bend before anyone," it only makes him as a brick, he is turned into a rock, more rigid every time.


 
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