Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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.
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.
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.
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
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.
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.
By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.
In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.
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.
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 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.
What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.
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.
Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.
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.
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.
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).
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.
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.
Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.
