Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
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Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
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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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Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.
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When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation...
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When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.
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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.
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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
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To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
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Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
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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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When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.
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By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
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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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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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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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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.