Top 211 Quotes & Sayings by Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.
In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.
All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.
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.
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.
What you are speaks louder than what you say.
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
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.
There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
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.
Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.
The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music
There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.
All ignorance is the lack of love.
There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.
For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.
There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
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.
Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
I asked for strength,
and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom,
and God gave me problems to learn to solve.
I asked for prosperity,
and God gave me a brain and brawn to work.
I asked for courage,
and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love,
and God gave me people to help.
I asked for favors,
and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.
Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.
Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.
When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.
As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Reason is the illusion of reality
Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.
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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