Pir Vilayat Quotes

#1. There are always few friends ... we love to make them feel jealous..

Lovely Goyal

#2. It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference.

Eudora Welty

#3. I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.

Jihan El-Tahri

#4. One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#5. A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Pir Vilayat Khan

#6. Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#7. There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#8. She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.

Cory Doctorow

#9. Everything is energy in motion.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#10. The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#11. Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#12. You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#13. The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#14. There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

Susan Cain

#15. Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#16. 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

#17. Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Alister MacKenzie

#18. I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Mark Twain

#19. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Martin Luther

#20. In dream consciousness ... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Pir Vilayat Khan

#21. The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#22. I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Christopher Walken

#23. There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Carl Hiaasen

#24. [A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk.

H.G.Wells

#25. We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#26. 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

#27. I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

Robert Duvall

#28. 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

#29. I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

Ravi Shankar

#30. Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Jonah Lehrer