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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Lying, Waiting, Heaven

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Love Is, Essence

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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.

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  Fall, Space, Water

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2011). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

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  Bridges, Form, Seems

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

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  Wise, Silence, Dignity

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• His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

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  Crush, Wall, Humility

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

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  Lack Of Love, Sin, Sufi

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• The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

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  Faults, Absence, Stillness

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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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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