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

Alchemy

Attitude of a Disciple

Children School

Confidence

Discipleship

Finding a Guide

Five Necessities

Ideals and Aims

Initiation

Inner School

Kinds of Disciples

Resistance of Pupils

Science of Breath

Sufi Training

Symbol of the Sufi Order

Ten Sufi Thoughts

The fire I have lighted

The Murshid

Two Duties

Way of Working

Yoga and Sufism

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PSYCHOLOGY 2

Science and Psychology

Q. What is the best way in education to develop that feeling in children?
A. I think people at home are more responsible for it than at school. Because this is the first work of home. But if at home such education is given and at school it is spoiled then of course there is an disharmony.

For instance I will give you an example. A nurse was telling the children that: "You must keep your toy; you must not take away the toy of another child", when they were quarrelling over one another's toys. The nurse taught them: "No, each of you have your own. The other one has not the right to touch the toys of the other." It was just, but it was not love.

Then another one came who knew about it and who said to each child: "No, all the toys belong to all of you. And the best thing is to give one's toys to the other, that you play with each other's toys. Do you not like to see your brother or sister playing with your toy? You ought to be delighted to see that your brother or sister is playing with it."

Well, that is the feeling that must be developed. This crude way in which sometimes people want to work up high ideals by troubling and fighting, that is not the way. The best way is the way of love, of harmony, of sympathy. And for that feeling must be developed instead of thought. The present generation has made a great advancement in thought. But that is not enough. Now what is needed is that battery which stands behind thought, and that is feeling.