Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.
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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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The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.
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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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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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There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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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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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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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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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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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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With love, even the rocks will open.
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All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.
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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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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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God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.
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Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
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The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
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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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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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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.