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• What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

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  Men, Giving, Understanding

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

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• He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

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  Thoughtful, Mind, Mastery

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• Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

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  Sarcasm, Abuse, Intellect

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.101, Library of Alexandria

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• By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

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  Vision, Harmony, Glory

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

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• The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

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  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1974). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, Four Plays”, p.144, Library of Alexandria

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• In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God.

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  Eye, Want, Path

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• There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

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  Balance, Our Actions, Should

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

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• To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

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  Leaving, Easy, All Things

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• The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.

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  Light, Shining, Soul

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

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• Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

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  Mother, Fall, Love Is

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• The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

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  Horizon, World, This World

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• There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

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  Clouds, Light, Broken

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• The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

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  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Hate

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• The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

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  Beauty, Purpose, Life Is

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

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

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  Swimming, Names, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

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  Pain, Joyfulness, Joyous

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• He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

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  Giving, Return

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• Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

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  Soul, Quality, Resignation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1963). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings”, p.94, Library of Alexandria

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• What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.

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  Wise, Art, Secret

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• Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

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  Country, Knowing, Law

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

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• The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

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  Lovers, Beloved, Pleasure

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• The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

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  Real, Men, Body

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

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• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

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  Yoga, Essence, Meditation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

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  Patience, Healing, Would Be

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1963). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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