Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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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To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
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What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
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All ignorance is the lack of love.
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To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
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The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
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There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.
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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.
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
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Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.
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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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For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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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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... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
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The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
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In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.
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You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
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When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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Things appear different from every different plane from which you look at them, and when a person standing on flat earth asks a person standing on top of a mountain, "Do you also believe something?" the person cannot tell much. The questioner must come to the top of the mountain and see. There can be no link of conversation between them until that time.
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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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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.
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True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.