Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
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Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
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Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
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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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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.
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For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.
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To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
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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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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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Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.
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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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There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
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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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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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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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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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You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!