Vilayat Inayat Khan Quotes

• In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Real, Caring, Self

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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.

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  Dark, Night, Soul

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher

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• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

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• The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

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  Assumption, Being Me, Individual

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• Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

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  Heart, Flames, Wings

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• Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

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  Acceptance, Grace, Ugly

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• There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

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  Understanding, Mind, Trying

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• The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

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  Imagination, Waiting, Power Of Imagination

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• Everything is energy in motion.

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  Energy, Miscellaneous

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

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  Vision, Depth, Would Be

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• The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

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  Creativity, Routine, Spirit

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• We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

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  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

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  Heart, Order, Heaven

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• Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.

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  Blow, Magic, Sound

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• A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

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  Men, Perfection, Humans

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

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  Death, Survival, Dying

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• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

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  Sleep, Light, Illumination

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• In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

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  Dream, Wish, Consciousness

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Home, Dedication, India

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