The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The impression in the mind does not stand still like a picture. The phenomenon of memory is such that one creates all that the memory holds, not only the vibrations that the memory holds, but the vibrations or forms in answer to it. For instance, a person has a deep impression of fear in his mind. The consequence is that the mind is at work to produce an object of its fear. In the dream, in imagination, in a wakeful state that fear is created. One can easily understand that it is created in the dream, but how in the wakeful state? Everything that is around a person, his friends, his foes, conditions, environment, all take a form which will frighten the mind that is holding fear in it. How wonderful then the plane of mind is! The mind is its question, and is itself its answer. Thus miseries are attracted especially by those who fear miseries; disappointment is brought about by those who expect a disappointment; failure is caused by holding the impression of a failure. Often people say, "I shall never succeed, I shall never succeed. Everything I do goes wrong, there is something wrong." It is a very good thing that there are stars, so that they can attribute their miseries to the stars! But these miseries belong to them, it is they in reality who are holding them in their minds.


 
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