The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Once when traveling I met a man of a very dense evolution, a soldier who always lived in military surroundings and who had very fixed ideas of his own. And when we were talking together and it appeared that we thought differently about something, I happened to say in order to preserve harmony, "Well, we are brothers!" He looked at me with great anger, and said, "Brothers! How dare you say such a thing!" I said, "I forgot. I am your servant, Sir." He was very pleased. I could have argued, but this would have created disharmony without reason. The foolishness of that man blazed up just like fire; I put water on it and extinguished it. I did not diminish myself; we are all servants of one another; and it pleased and satisfied him.


 
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