The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The human being is inherently capable of self-knowledge; but to know oneself means not only to know that one is John, Jacob, or Henry, or short, tail, or of normal height, or to know that one is good, bad, and so forth, but also

  • to know the mystery of one's existence, theoretically as well as practically:
  • to know what one is within oneself,
  • from whence and for what purpose one was born on earth;
  • whether one will live here forever, or if one's stay is short;
  • of what one is composed, and which attributes one possesses;
  • whether one belongs to angels, contemplating the beauties of God's nature, or if one belongs to the animals, who know nothing other than to eat, drink, and be merry; or whether one belongs to the devils.


 
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