Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
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The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.
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Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.
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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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When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
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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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We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
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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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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.
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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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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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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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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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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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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
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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 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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Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
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The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
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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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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.