One must check the wrong impulse: an impulse to talk back to a person who insults one, an impulse to pinch a person by saying a word, and impulse to hurt a person by cutting words, an impulse to find out the secret of others, an impulse to criticize. All such undesirable impulses can be mastered. And it is not that one has mastered them, but one has gained power over oneself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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