Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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 truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is 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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I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
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To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
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I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
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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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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
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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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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
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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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Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.
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Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
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When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.
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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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The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
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Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
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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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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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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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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
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There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.