The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I will tell you my own experience in the Western world. Traveling for ten years, I have come in contact with people of intelligence, thinkers, men of science; and in them I have seen the greatest yearning for that religious spirit. They are longing every moment of their lives for it, for they find, with all their education and science, that there is some space empty in themselves and they want it filled. But, at the same time, if you speak of religion, they say, "No, no, speak of something else; we do not want religion." This means they know only the rattle part of religion and not the violin part. They do not think that a thing exists which can be different from a rattle and yet there is a perplexity in themselves, a spiritual craving, that is not answered even by all their learned and scientific pursuits.


 
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