Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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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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Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
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Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
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My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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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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The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped.
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What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.
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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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All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.
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As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.
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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.