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

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Beauty, Beautiful, Funny Friend

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

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Love, Healing, Heart

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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.

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Men, Path Of Love, Return

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, 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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Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

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Spiritual, Views, Progress

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.125, 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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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

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Symphony, Action, Life Is

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

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Journey, Differences, Destination

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.210, 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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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.

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Evil, Joy, Heaven

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One is never so strong as when one is broken.

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Strong, Broken

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Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

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Lack Of Love, Sin, Sufi

"Bowl of Saki".

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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.

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Dancing, Soul, Sound

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Smiling Forehead”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Real, Inspiration, Light

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Heart, Love Is, Soul

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.20, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.

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Heart, Men, Light

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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Sound, Doe, Ears

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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!

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Soul, Secret, Lasts

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Died: 1927
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