The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Q. But I suppose that if it is with grownup people it is much more difficult? A. It is, but at the same time if one has the spirit that we are never grownup, that we have never closed our heart from learning, that whatever the age we are always ready to accept what is harmonious and beautiful. The idea is this, that when one thinks that, "What I think is right," and one finds arguments and reasons to make it right; and "What another person thinks is wrong," and one finds reasons to make it wrong, this person will always remain in the same place. But one who is ready to accept even from a child, if there is anything that one says that is wrong and one thinks, 'Yes, even the child says it, it is a profit for me to accept it." For God has not only spoken through His prophets, but He speaks through every person if we open our heart to listen to it. The difficulty is that we become teachers. If we kept ourselves a pupil.... Through our whole life we can keep ourselves a pupil, and the teaching will come all the time from within and without. As soon as we become teachers we close our heart from Him Who alone is our Teacher.


 
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