Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
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Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
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In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
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In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
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Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
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Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
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The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.
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You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
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There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
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Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music...
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There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
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Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.
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While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
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With love, even the rocks will open.
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.
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People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.
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What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
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We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.