Top 100 Inayat Khan Sayings

#1. To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #545
#2. The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #1554
#3. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #13156
#4. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #14986
#5. Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #14995
#6. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #17276
#7. He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #21186
#8. Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #26539
#9. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #27903
#10. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #29893
#11. When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #34720
#12. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #38673
#13. Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #40457
#14. The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #54474
#15. To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #55436
#16. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #61680
#17. For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #71522
#18. One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #89588
#19. Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #99206
#20. If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #117556
#21. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #123582
#22. for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #138083
#23. In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ...

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #139376
#24. The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #147079
#25. The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #153583
#26. The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #157194
#27. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #176058
#28. Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

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Inayat Khan Sayings #182352
#29. Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #193591
#30. The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #195640
#31. Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #242673
#32. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #244234
#33. If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #249242
#34. The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination
aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #250722
#35. A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #262369
#36. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #290007
#37. Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #290706
#38. One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #291752
#39. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #296980
#40. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #298040
#41. 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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Inayat Khan Sayings #310335
#42. Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #310851
#43. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #314946
#44. In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #315747
#45. The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #319525
#46. We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #323625
#47. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #331106
#48. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #331383
#49. In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #338069
#50. If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #338515
#51. A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #362749
#52. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #364558
#53. While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #373169
#54. Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #385240
#55. Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #387715
#56. If the rays are the souls of living beings, then the light of that same divine Sun is the spirit of the whole of nature. It is the same light; but not divided, not distinct, as are the rays which we call souls.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #393089
#57. Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #415578
#58. My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #418971
#59. By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #419631
#60. Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #420885
#61. To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #426622
#62. What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #433121
#63. My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #433641
#64. When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #439154
#65. There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #470700
#66. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #473153
#67. Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #476793
#68. He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #478365
#69. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #479539
#70. He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #482638
#71. All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #516115
#72. What you are speaks louder than what you say.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #543600
#73. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #544348
#74. I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #547844
#75. To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

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Inayat Khan Sayings #550425
#76. And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #553608
#77. The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #569988
#78. Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #580166
#79. The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #582901
#80. Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?

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Inayat Khan Sayings #587120
#81. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #589514
#82. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #590462
#83. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #595778
#84. Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #603471
#85. I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #606776
#86. 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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #612354
#87. Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #616789
#88. With love, even the rocks will open.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #627737
#89. 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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Inayat Khan Sayings #632523
#90. Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #652922
#91. You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

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Inayat Khan Sayings #660656
#92. The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #670412
#93. There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #684333
#94. Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #694201
#95. The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #695874
#96. What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan Sayings #720555
#97. If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #722789
#98. 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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Inayat Khan Sayings #724921
#99. The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #734606
#100. People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

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Inayat Khan Sayings #737061

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