Vilayat Inayat Quotes

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#2. 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

#3. Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.

Stephen Denning

#4. 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

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#6. I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.

Alan Arkin

#7. Everything is energy in motion.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#8. Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred Armand Montapert

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#13. Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.

Paul Gitwaza

#14. 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

#15. Did I just get psychically pimp-slapped by a little old lady?

Molly Harper

#16. There is still so much more to say ...

R.M. Engelhardt

#17. You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Arthur Golden

#18. I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Gail Carson Levine

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#20. I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

Samantha Fox

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

Madeleine Albright

#25. I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

Ed Sheeran