The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Is this unlearning forgetting all that one learns? Not at all. This unlearning means to be able to say with reason, logically, the contrary to what one has learnt. When one is accustomed to say: this is wrong, that is right; this is good and that is bad; this is great and that is small; this is higher and that is lower; this is spiritual and that is material; this is up and that is down, and this is before and that is after; if one can use the opposite words for each with reason and logic, one has unlearned naturally that which one had once learned. It is after this that the realization of truth begins; for then the mind is not fixed any more. And it is then that one becomes alive, for then one's soul has been born. It is then that one will become tolerant, and it is then that one will forgive; for one will understand both one's friend and one's foe. Then one never has only one point of view; one has all points of view. Is it not dangerous, one might ask, to have all points of view? wouldn't that make one lose one's own point of view? Not necessarily; one may occupy one room in the house or ten rooms; one may use each as one likes according to how many points of view one can see, so large is one's point of view.


 
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