Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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 happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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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.
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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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There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
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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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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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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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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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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
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In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.
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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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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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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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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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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
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Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
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There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.
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In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.
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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.