The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan1

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Topic

Archetypes

Astrology

Attainment

Chakras

Character

Christ

Compassion

Dervish

Desire and renunciation

Destiny and Free Will

Dimensions

Discipleship

Dreams

Duties and debts

Ego

Elements

God

Guidance

Healers

Healing

Health

Heart

Immortality

Initiation

Light and Love

Lovers

Magnetism

Mastery

Material life

Meditation

Message

Mind

Physical Body

Planes

Poets

Power

Prayers

Purpose

Reconstruction of World

Relationships

Religions

Saints

School

Scientists

Sexuality

Sleep

Speaking

Stages

Stories

Sufism

Teaching Style

Voice

Women

World

Wounds of the Heart

Sub-Topic

A Cover Over the Soul

Care of the body

Developing will-power

Experience through the

Eyes

Eyes express

Fire Walking

Greetings

Intermarriage

Law of Heredity

Left - Right

Lips

Mind-Body Influence

Movements in Face

Physiognomy

Purpose of

Radiance of Face

Sense Organs

Sex determination

Spine

Stiffness

Vegetarian Diet

Vol. 13, Gathas

Insight

1.8, The Study of the Whole

Man's form can be divided into two parts, the head and the body; one part is for action, the other for thought. Therefore the face can explain the attitude of mind and depict the nature and character more fully than the body and its movements. Every little movement of the eyes, the movements of the lips in smiling or in laughter, the movements of the eyebrows or of the head itself explain the condition of the mind.

  • The ends of the eyebrows turning upwards denotes egoism and shrewdness.
  • The puckering of the lips suggests pleasure, as the twitching of the lips shows a tendency to humor or indicates pleasure.
  • The rolling of the eyes or a restless movement suggests confusion.
  • The movement of the eyes towards the outer corners denotes a clever brain.
  • The puffing of the cheeks denotes joy, the drawing in sorrow.