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Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one's faith or belief, belongs to God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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and the sense of justice makes one wish to judge oneself before judging others. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
so are the revelations of the one stream of truth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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 -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention ... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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With love, even the rocks will open. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is! -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ... -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he lacks the art of personality he is poor indeed. It is in this art that man shows the nobility which belongs to the kingdom of God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come ... he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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One is never so strong as when one is broken. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am ... ' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Besides this it is necessary that man, before starting his journey, realizes that he has fulfilled his duties, his duty to those around him and his duty to God. But one who considers his duty to those around him sacredly does his duty to God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music? -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology." -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What you are speaks louder than what you say. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The wise in all ages ... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The soul is covered by a thousand veils. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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All ignorance is the lack of love. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being ... -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Therefore, the person living the inner life never condemns and does not criticize the objects of another, however small or ridiculous they may appear, for he knows that every object in the life of a person is but a stepping stone which leads him forward if he only wishes to go forward. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Peace is perfected activity. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is the empty pitcher that makes a noise when you knock upon it, but the pitcher which is full of water does not make any sound; it is silent, speechless. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Reason is the illusion of reality -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them! -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan