Vilayat Khan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. 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

#4. I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

Taylor Swift

#5. 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

#6. Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.

Jonathan Dee

#7. Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.

Michelangelo

#8. Everything is energy in motion.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. You can barely make out the heavy wooden block of the contortion seat. I run my hands along it's contours, the wood grain smooth and polished from human flesh.

Adam Johnson

#13. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Pir Vilayat Khan

#15. 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

#16. Choosing the criteria for choosing

Nick Bostrom

#17. It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Richard Lugar

#18. I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

Alexander Hanson

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#20. The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

Charles Churchill

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#22. Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?

Kay Arthur

#23. Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Pope Francis

#24. It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

Lights

#25. I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.

Bill Murray

#26. 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

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

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

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

Kiersten White

#32. 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