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One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

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Fate, Hands, Wish

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All ignorance is the lack of love.

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Ignorance, Lack Of Love

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.15, 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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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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In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

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Musician, Ancient, Great Music

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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It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

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Spiritual, Giving, Peaceful

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

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World

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All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.

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Blessed, Greatness, Wind

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Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

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

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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

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Thinking, Knowing, People

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

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When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

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Wise, Nature, Attention

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

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Names, Life Is, Form

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

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We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

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God, Soul, Afar

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

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The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

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Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

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Inspirational, Nature, Animal

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There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

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Two, Soul, Tragedy

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When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

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Thinking, People, Ignorant

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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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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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From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

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Music, Art, Views

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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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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Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

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Adversity, Opportunity, Love Is

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1962). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan volume 6: The Alchemy of Happiness”

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True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

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Struggle, True Power, Self

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

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Humble, Thinking, Faults

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.134, Library of Alexandria

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What you are speaks louder than what you say.

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Speak

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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Died: 1927
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