Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

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• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Time
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Write

• It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Pretty
  • Enough
  • Crosses

• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Person
  • Vocabulary

• All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Simple

• Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Achievement

• Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

  

  Lalita Tademy
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Deep

• The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Work
  • Age
  • Practice

• Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged

  

  Kai Greene
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Dream

• Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Nature
  • Painter
  • Effects

• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Focus

• Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Peace
  • Compassion
  • Survival

• Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Goal

• It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Money
  • Feeling

• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Freedom
  • Food

• Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Present
  • Should
  • Philosophy

• Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Love
  • True

• It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Theatre
  • Humans
  • Dangerous

• Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Free

• The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Faith
  • Creation
  • Creator

• All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Names
  • Forms
  • Garbs