Short Story: The Sufi master talks on personality development
By emptychair
@innertalks (23734)
Australia
November 24, 2020 9:52pm CST
The great Sufi master, Sufat Rostus Kkan, was talking to his students about how they can know what their true nature was.
Are they born aggressive, or passive, in nature?
Are they musically inclined?
Are they patient, or impatient?
Are they lazy, or industrious?
Are they curious, or bored?
Does man really have different facets of himself, an inborn nature, like animals have, for his soul to be a certain way?
Then, the soul must be refined in life, and living, to gain a character, and to build a personality, so that it then takes on the divine nature instead, plus a divine personality, and approaches God, in its character, then too.
The soul is fashioned with certain gifts, and tendencies, to act in certain ways, as God wants each soul to have its own functionative purpose too, but then to develop itself from its base position as well, and so gain a heart of love, developed through refining the mind, culturally, socially, and personally, so that the mind serves both love, and God, then, and the soul loves God as itself, and serves him through all of itself then too, including all its bodies, or outer coverings of its mind, ego, personality, heart, and emotional strengths too.
Your character is not your personality, but your personality depends on your character, to some degree.
What are your values, your ideals, your principals?
These form your ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, which ultimately becomes to some extent, your outer self, in its personality type too.
Your personality is the way that you be personally yourself, in mood, being, character, soul, heart, emotion, in all parts of you combined into a mix that becomes over time your personality.
Think about all that I have told you here, and come back to me tomorrow, with any questions, that you might then have.
My talk is ended for today.
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Are you hidden in a tunnel of yourself?
What is your real nature, and true self, really all about?
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Nov 20
There are so many authors who write about a person's personality based in their thoughts, experiences and line of work like the psychologists, psychoanalysts, and guidance counselors.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
Yes, and hypnotists sometimes throw their hat into the ring too, as well as, some religious, and spiritual figures too.
Everybody has different ideas.
The truth probably is that nobody much really knows why we have different personalities at all!
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
@Nakitakona Yes. God gives different qualities/gifts/talents/personality/characteristics to each person, or soul.
Saint Paul outlines this in his great letter to the Corinthians, in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, of the Christian Bible.
"The Holy Spirit is given to each of us in a special way."
is from verse 7.
We are all unique within God, to God, and we should be as ourselves too.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
25 Nov 20
@innertalks That's how man is designed by his greatest Creator.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
25 Nov 20
Thought-provoking. I enjoyed this talk. I can see how the character is not personality, but personality depends on it. The sum of who we are is the gift God gave us as we depend on Him for who we are: our personality, intellect, emotion - all work together to make the whole of who we are.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Nov 20
@innertalks Yes, we are all unique. Praise God we are.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
And yet, God created us all differently too, uniquely, individually, so that we all have our own mix, of talents, gifts, characteristics, personality, body types, and mind strengths.
And, it is as Saint Paul said:
"The Holy Spirit is given to each of us in a special way."
1 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 7.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
There is another famous one called, Hazrat Inayat Khan. His writings are well worth investigating.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
25 Nov 20
Most are stuck in a rut and stay the same but a few are quite open to an eclectic outlook.
I think I belong to the second category.
I felt inadequate when I was a boy and lacked self confidence. I did not know what life was about and what I had to do for a living.
I opened my eyes to the world only after I was sixteen years old and realized I had certain talents too.
Though I could not pursue what I had passion for, I observed a few who were successful in what they did.
That helped me to fashion my approach so that I was more useful and productive.
I always took on board my inner voice and stuck to my conscience. I was able to draw a line - thus far and no further.
All in all, the yearning of my soul was the driving force and I felt an inner calm that translated to my calm outside demeanor. I did not want to ignore the physical body either. All in all, I was able to balance the body, mind and soul.
I have a firm belief our soul is connected to our creator and we have unlimited potential. We have constant promptings too and also bursts of inspiration that will lift us up if we are ready to seize and follow them through.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
Nicely written, siva, and I wish all of us could live in that way.
Some of us do not know how to draw that line, with our minds, and do not even know of its presence, as prompted in us by our hearts, or soul, or inner voice too.
I feel a certain contact with your inner perfecting self allowed you to stay, or be usefully/gainfully perfect too, in your outer self, as our conscience, our inner self, always guides us perfectly, and if we heed its call, and honour its presence, even if we do not like its direction for us, at times, we will live a life that we will have no regrets about then too.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
26 Nov 20
@Shiva49 Yes, it is good that we are trying to at last move to mindful living, but there is even a stage after that, heartful living.
We must eventually embrace the heart, more than we revere, or follow, the mind.
Our heart decision must come first. Love trumps thought every time.
@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
26 Nov 20
@innertalks Thanks Steve, a life without regrets is what I aimed for and managed to achieve to a great extent.
I mean what I say - has been my trait that I cultivated and refined to ease my conscience.
Now people have coined a word "mindful living" for a lifestyle that "involves pausing, observing, noticing, being non-judgmental, checking in with your senses and becoming connected with the present moment.."
I can say it is a habit with me ever since I remember, at least, after I started to stand on my own legs in terms of financial independence.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
25 Nov 20
What a great piece. there is a lot here. I do like the thought that you put into this one. The question for me regarding personality is the creation of that personality as much as the later presentation of the personality.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
25 Nov 20
Perfection:
Slowly moves the march of ages,
Slowly grows the forest king,
Slowly to perfection cometh
Every great and glorious thing!
My grandfather used to often quote these lines, from some old book, that he had read, I think.
(I searched the lines, and it's from Robert Naylor's book, "From John O'Groats to Land's End.")
It shows that perfection grows in us over time, and God, or our maker, has set it up that way, for a reason.
Why do we need to grow to perfection over time, rather than being initially created perfect, by God?
When we make things, we try to make them perfectly, right from the start, like a car, a train, a plane. We do not expect it to only reach perfection, at the end of its useful life.
Perfection is not trifle, but a trifle made perfectly takes time, and preparation, for it to sit right on God's table, and so God gave us time to grow into a new perfection too, of our self, not just of God.
But the two, will match in the end, anyway, surprise, surprise.
Online etext From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor (page 24 of 66) : the collection of free ebooks
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