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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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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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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[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'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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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.
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I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
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Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
