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

14 to 18

Awakening

Discipleship

Fana-fi-Shaikh

Farid-ud-din-Attar

Five Desires

Five Steps

Four Personalities of God

Four stages of God Consciousness

Four Types of People

Four Ways People Evolve

Grades of Evolution

Inner Life

Outer Signs of Progress

Paramatma

Path of Initiation

Signs of spirituality

Spiritual Attainment

Steps 4-10

Steps in the Spiritual Journey

The art of personality

The Last 7 Steps

The Prophet

Three Stages

Wakening to the Message

Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human

6. Man is likened to the Light

Signs of Spirituality

The difference between our soul and our body, which sometimes we consider as great as between earth and heaven, is not so great. Soul and body are one light, and therefore the external part of man is expressive of his inner being, and the inner being of man also is dependent in many ways upon his external being. "Inner and outer part of man's being" is a term used for our convenience; in reality there is One Being, there is One Light.

If a man lacks magnetism, if he lacks enthusiasm and courage, if he lacks power of accomplishment, it is all owing to the lack of that radiance which belongs to his being. The health of the body, the balance of the mind, the purity of the soul all depend upon the radiance of man's being.

  • Health of the body therefore is spiritual,
  • balance of the mind is spiritual, and so is
  • the purity of the soul.
  • A good atmosphere is a sign of spirituality;
  • the power of the word,
  • courage without fear -- fearlessness,
  • self-confidence also are signs of spirituality;
  • the capability of accomplishing something and
  • the strength of struggling along all through life.

All these are the signs of spirituality.