The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan      

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Volume

Sayings

Social Gathekas

Religious Gathekas

The Message Papers

The Healing Papers

Vol. 1, The Way of Illumination

Vol. 1, The Inner Life

Vol. 1, The Soul, Whence And Whither?

Vol. 1, The Purpose of Life

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound

Vol. 2, Cosmic Language

Vol. 2, The Power of the Word

Vol. 3, Education

Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra

Vol. 3, Character and Personality

Vol. 4, Healing And The Mind World

Vol. 4, Mental Purification

Vol. 4, The Mind-World

Vol. 5, A Sufi Message Of Spiritual Liberty

Vol. 5, Aqibat, Life After Death

Vol. 5, The Phenomenon of the Soul

Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine

Vol. 5, Pearls from the Ocean Unseen

Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence

Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness

Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden

Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind

Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human

Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings

Vol. 9, The Unity of Religious Ideals

Vol. 10, Sufi Mysticism

Vol. 10, The Path of Initiation and Discipleship

Vol. 10, Sufi Poetry

Vol. 10, Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Vol. 10, The Problem of the Day

Vol. 11, Philosophy

Vol. 11, Psychology

Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life

Vol. 12, The Vision of God and Man

Vol. 12, Confessions: Autobiographical Essays of Hazat Inayat Khan

Vol. 12, Four Plays

Vol. 13, Gathas

Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead

By Date

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

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The Alchemy of Happiness

The Aim of Life

The Purpose of Life (1)

The Five Inclinations

The Purpose of Life (2)

The Four Ways People Take

The Ultimate Purpose of Life

The Art of Personality

The Development of Personality

The Attitude

The Secret of Life

What is Wanted in Life?

Life, a Continual Battle (1)

Life, a Continual Battle (2)

The Struggle of Life (1)

The Struggle of Life (2)

Reaction

The Deeper Side of Life

Life, An Opportunity

Our Life's Experience

Communicating with Life

The Intoxication of Life (1)

The Intoxication of Life (2)

The Meaning of Life

Receiving the Knowledge of Life

The Inner Life

The Inner Life and Self Realization

Steps in the Spiritual Journey

The Interdependence of Life Within and Without

Interest and Indifference

The Four Kinds of Interest

The Four Kinds of Indifference

From Limitation to Perfection (1)

The Aspects of Religion

From Limitation to Perfection (2)

The Path of Attainment (1)

The Path of Attainment (2)

Stages on the Path of Self-realization

Stages of Belief in God

The Stages toward Perfection

Man, the Master of His Destiny (1)

Aspects of the Master-Mind

Man, the Master of His Destiny (2)

The Three Spheres

The Law of Action

2. Aspects of Law

Grades of Personality

The Three Laws

Purity of Life

Acknowledgment

Responsibility

The Continuity of Life

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Individuality and Personality

Four Categories of Personality

Four Aspects of Magnetism

1. Physical Magnetism

2. intellectual Sympathy

3. Sympathetic Magnetism

4. Spiritual Magnetism

Democracy

Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness

The Art of Personality

Four Categories of Personality

(Updated from the original lecture of May 13, 1926)

No doubt, there are four categories of personality. The first one is the person whose personality is likened to walnut, the other is like grapes, the other like date, and the fourth is like pomegranate.

  • The date-like personality is soft outside and hard inside. As soon as one takes a date in the mouth, as soon as the seed comes under the teeth, one has horror of it.
  • And then there is the other personality which is walnut-like. There is a hard shell, hard to penetrate. But when you know the person more, it is like breaking the walnut, and there comes a nut which is soft.
  • And then there is a pomegranate personality. It is hard outside and hard inside. The pomegranate is hard, the cover is hard, and at the same time the seed inside is hard too.
  • And then there is the grape personality which is soft outside and soft inside.

You will always find these four classes of persons.

  • The personality of one who is hard outside is repellant first, but in the end you will become his friend. Therefore, he has always lost his friends. You understand him only when you come to the inner being of this man. Therefore, he will always lose his friends.
  • And the one whose personality is soft outside and hard inside will at once attract people, but they will not stay with him. They will stay for some time, but then they leave him. Then they know him and go away from him.
  • And the person whose personality is hard outside and hard inside is isolated in this world. This is not the place for him. Everyone will want to keep away from him. And after some time he will find himself in a difficulty.
  • And the one whose personality is soft outside and soft inside naturally will be most magnetic. The grape is the most attractive fruit.