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# The Art of Personality: Inayat Khan's Remarkable Lesson
- URL: https://sufimohamed.com/the-art-of-personality/
- Published: 2026-02-10T11:22:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-10T11:22:33.000Z
- Description: Individuality is nature. Personality is art. Individuality is that which we brought with us at our birth, we are born as a separate entity.
- Author: Sufi Mohamed
- Tags: Spirituality

*This piece presents teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the Indian musician and Sufi teacher who brought Sufism to the West. His lectures on this theme are collected in* The Alchemy of Happiness*, volume 6 of* The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan *(Inayat Khan, 2015).*

## The Art of Personality

Individuality is that which we brought with us at our birth, we are born as a separate entity.

Individuality is the soul's consciousness of its oneness

The moment the soul says "I" it becomes conscious of an individuality.

Personality is an improvement on individuality.

In becoming a person the beauty which is hidden in an individual develops itself, and it is the development of the individuality which is personality.

> Individuality is nature. Personality is art. Personality is something that is acquired or gained. It has not come with us.

## How does one make use of personality?

In business the salesman makes a success according to the power of his magnetism; his influence depends entirely on his personality.

It is his personality that stands out.

## References

Inayat Khan, H. (2015). *The Sufi message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Vol. 6\. The alchemy of happiness*. Motilal Banarsidass.

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