Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.
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The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.
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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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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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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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All ignorance is the lack of love.
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
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The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one's faith or belief, belongs to God.
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When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.
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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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Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
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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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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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Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.
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Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.
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What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.
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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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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.
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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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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.