Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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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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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Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
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All ignorance is the lack of love.
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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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I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.
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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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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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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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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
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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.
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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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A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.
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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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Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
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Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
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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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I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.