Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes - Page 9

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• If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

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  Attitude, Love You, Heart

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.194, Library of Alexandria

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• Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

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  Self, Half, Poverty

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

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• Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

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  Giving, Joy, Meals

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• Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

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  Teacher, Desire, Should

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

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  Music, Song, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

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  Spiritual, Ignorance, Looks

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• I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.

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  Music, Heart, Reality

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• The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.

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  Lying, Rely Upon, Meditation

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• How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

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  Horse, Lying, Secret

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• We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

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  Fighting, Evil, Overcoming

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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