Top 30 Vilayat 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. Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#3. For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I'm not.
Tanya Kaley
#4. Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
John Major
#5. 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
#6. A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Pir Vilayat Khan
#7. 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
#8. There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#10. For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
Gustavo Dudamel
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.
Kanye West
#14. 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
#15. The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#16. I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
Ron Silver
#17. Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.
John Buchan
#18. A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. 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
#22. During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
Abby Wambach
#23. The smell of hospitals is like small talk at a funeral - you know its function is to cover up something else.
Tim Kreider
#24. The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#26. We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#27. 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
#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 should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.
Eric Massa
#30. 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
