Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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 first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!
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To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.
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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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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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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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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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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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Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
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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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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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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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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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Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
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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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Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
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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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Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
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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.