The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Besides all different professions and works and occupations, there remains another capacity which is neglected in youth, of cultivating the heart quality. Today every effort is made to train a youth to become intellectual, what they call learning. But there is a difference between intellect and wisdom. It is not necessarily the same. As we confuse pleasure and happiness, also we confuse clever and wise. But the clever is not necessarily wise. Wisdom is a different thing from cleverness. So intellect is different from wisdom.

  • Intellect is that which one learns by impressions, studies, and which one gathers in the form of knowledge of names and forms.
  • Wisdom is something which is gathered like the honey from the grape, like butter from milk. And therefore, wisdom is gained from within, also from without. This combination from within and without makes it wisdom.


 
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