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

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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

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1. Science and Psychology

2. Suggestion

3. Suggestions Through Impression and Belief

4. Suggestion through Various forms of Impression

5. Suggestion by Word and Voice

6. Suggestion by Movement

7. Suggestion in Practice

8. Attitude

9. Magnetism

10. Physical Magnetism

11. The Magnetism of the Mind

12. The Magnetism of the Heart

13. The Magnetism of the Soul

14. Spiritual Magnetism

15. Psychology, the Master of Mind

16. Twin Souls

17. Nature and Character

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Five Aspects

Keen Perception

Creativity

Reasoning

Memory

Feeling

Three Degrees of Rhythm

Five Aspects

Vol. 11, Psychology

11. The Magnetism of the Mind

Three Degrees of Rhythm

  • There is a mind which creates slowly and perceives slowly,
  • there is a mind which creates gently and perceives gently,
  • and the third degree is the mind which perceives quickly and creates thoughts quickly.

    There is a particular phenomenon that manifests from these three rhythms of the mind, which each has its particular influence. The three qualities of the mind--slow, gentle, and quick--are the outcome of the three Gunas, as they are called in Sanskrit: Satva, Rajas, and Tarnas.

    There is one person to whom we may say something and he answers, "Will you give me time to think it over? May I tell you about it tomorrow?" The answer that he will give us will surely be of some worth. There is another person who has heard us say something and he says, "And then, what then?" and then we go on speaking, and while we are saying something else he is thinking about what has struck his mind. By the time we have finished our conversation he has found a proper answer to what we said first. And there is a third man who answers us even before we have finished our sentence; far from thinking about what we have said, he has not even heard it. He has at once formed an opinion on it and promptly gives an answer. Such a man may easily make a mistake.