The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan1
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Topic ArchetypesAstrologyAttainmentChakrasCharacterChristCompassionDervishDesire and renunciationDestiny and Free WillDimensionsDiscipleshipDreamsDuties and debtsEgoElementsGodGuidanceHealersHealingHealthHeartImmortalityInitiationLight and LoveLoversMagnetismMasteryMaterial lifeMeditationMessageMindPhysical BodyPlanesPoetsPowerPrayersPurposeReconstruction of WorldRelationshipsReligionsSaintsSchoolScientistsSexualitySleepSpeakingStagesStoriesSufismTeaching StyleVoiceWomenWorldWounds of the Heart | Sub-Topic AmericaBusinesspeopleDemocracyEast and WestEconomyEnd of the WorldEvolutionFour OccupationsFutureHumanity is grown upIndividual progressKeep BurningLack of idealLiberal and ConservativeMoneyNational disharmonyNew EraPoliticsPresent NeedProblem of the Day 1Problem of the Day 2Prophet-KingReconstructionSuffer from stressThe Condition TodayWars: planetary intelligenceWealth |
Vol. 14, The Smiling ForeheadPoints of View held by Spiritual PersonsFive IdealsThe whole world is going downwards because of the lack of an ideal, and if there is any hope of the betterment of humanity, it is not through better economical conditions; it is not so that, if political conditions were better, the world would be happy. No, never, because that thirst, that hunger for money and that avariciousness will want just the same. If the labor-man came in the place of the government, if the laborer became a capitalist, and the capitalist a laborer, if the whole world became aristocratic, or if the whole world became democratic, that would not take away the trouble of the world. If there is anything that will raise the world, it is the ideal. If the ideal is given in different directions and to different individuals, and if humanity wakens to a higher ideal, that only can be the source of the betterment of humanity. |