The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There is a story that can explain the mystery of life's purpose. A fairy had a great desire to amuse herself, and she descended on the earth. And there children had made a little doll's-house. She wanted to enter this doll's-house, but it was difficult for her to enter into the space where only a doll can go. "Very well", she said, "I am going to try a different way. I will send one finger by this way, and another finger by another way, and each part by different ways." And she separated into different bits, and each bit of herself went through the different parts of the doll's-house. And when one part met the other part, at once they rubbed against one another and that was very unpleasant. And there was a fight among the different parts: "Why are you coming my way? this was my way; why do you come my way?" Each part of the fairy's being interested itself in something, in some part of that doll's-house. When that moment of interest passed, a certain part of her being wanted to go out of the doll's-house.


 
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