The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Answer: That would be nice, but we are living in a community; we are not entitled to live in a community and to disregard its laws. If we wish to benefit, to entitle ourselves to all its advantages we must adhere to its laws. No doubt if we have better ideas than the community has produced, we can make them see that our principle is the right one, but we must not disregard the principle in which the whole community lives, saying, "We make our laws for our individual being." We can go to the mountains and forests saying, "We live according to our own law;" then we can be entitled to do so. In ancient times there were spiritual people who went into the caves of the mountains and into the forest and lived according to their own laws. But if we say, "As members of the community we must have its privileges" then we must also adhere to the laws of the community.


 
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