Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.
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All ignorance is the lack of love.
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The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
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In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.
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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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Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
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Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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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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The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.
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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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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
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Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.
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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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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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I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
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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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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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All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.