Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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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.
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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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.
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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.
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Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
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The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.
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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
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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.
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If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.
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Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.
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I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
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The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
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All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
