Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

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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.

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Strong, Opportunity, People

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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.

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Inspirational, Pain, Heart

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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.

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Inspiration, Healing, Voice

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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.

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Humanity, Daylight, Evolution

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Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Funny Friend

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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.

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Art, Vibrations, Mystery

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God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

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Love, Healing, Heart

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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

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Personality, Pieces, Tone

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.

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Soul, Truth Is

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Ocean, Heart, Eye

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

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Music, Religion, One Day

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The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

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Children, Joy, Sorrow

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

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Wise, Mean, Soul

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It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

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Men, Demand, Explanation

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Real, War, Eye

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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.

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Inspiration, Mind, Body

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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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.

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Truth, Names, People

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Reality, Tone, Creation

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Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

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Imagination, Left, Ifs

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.315, Library of Alexandria

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He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

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Real, Purpose, Life Is

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

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Heart, Eye

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Voice, Tuning, Radio

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Crush, Self, Ego

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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.

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Gratitude, Joy, Feelings

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Character, Voice, Secret

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Died: 1927
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