The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Thus when developing fineness of character one learns to consider another person's feeling. A man may consider himself very sensible, and at the same time wish that another person would not hurt or insult him. He thinks to himself, "This man talks too much; he annoys me; how badly he dresses, etc." Whereas we believe one person to be sensible and understanding, another we think is not; but we should forget what we ourselves think, and bethink ourself of what another thinks. It shows so much greater fineness of character when one does not give grounds for offense to others, but it is very difficult to attain this. There is no benefit in making our life so regular and orderly that it offends everybody else; it is in the understanding and consideration of other people's feeling that true religion lies.


 
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