Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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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Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
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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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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
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The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
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There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.
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Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
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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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If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.
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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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What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.
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With love, even the rocks will open.
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Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
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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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From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
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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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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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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
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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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Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
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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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The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.
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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.