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Express Your True Personality — Part 1

Allow your soul to express through your actions every day

In yoga, we seek to know the soul and let it express through our thoughts, feelings and personality. Hazrat Inayat Khan (Being and Becoming) explains that Sufis strive to improve their personality until it becomes a natural flow of the true self. Discover the Sufi’s four stages of personality and allow your personality to flow from within.

Essential Life Skills, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Soul/Inner Self

Personality is a Flow From Deep Within

Your fine personality is a natural, ongoing flow from deep within you.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan (Being and Becoming)

That’s what personality is, fully understood. You have a unique way of relating to others. Your fine personality naturally comes through as it is developed. You can be your real self, just better and better. You’re going to have a wonderful personality as you allow your real, natural, effortless soul to come through you.

  • Yogis focus on allowing the soul, the spirit of God within, to express
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan explains how Sufis seek to refine the personality into an expression of the soul
  • Patanjali taught that the personality is a counterfeit self, not the real self
  • Khan explains that as you develop through the four stages, you find your personality is a natural flow of the true self
Express Your True Personality
Allow your soul to express through your actions every day
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