Hazrat Inayat Khan was a Sufi teacher and a clergyman who lived in India in the early 20th century. He was a proponent of universal peace and founded the Sufi Order International, a spiritual movement based on the teachings of Sufism. He was an influential figure in the spread of Sufism in the West and wrote several books on the subject.
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Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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.
Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
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.
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan Short Quotes
If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
With love, even the rocks will open.
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.
Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.
The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Hazrat Inayat Khan Famous Quotes And Sayings
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
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
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
The soul is covered by a thousand veils. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
All ignorance is the lack of love. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
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
He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul! — Hazrat Inayat Khan
When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation — Hazrat Inayat Khan
People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
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
As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
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
Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Life Lessons by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan taught that the spiritual path is one of understanding and compassion, and that we must strive to be tolerant and respectful of others.
He believed that all religions are paths to the same truth, and that we should use our spiritual practices to bring us closer to God.
He also taught that we should strive to live in harmony with nature and to be mindful of our impact on the environment.
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