Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
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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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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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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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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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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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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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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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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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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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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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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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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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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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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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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.