Hazrat Inayat Khan
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.Collection: Beauty
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.Collection: Inspiration
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.Collection: Music
There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.Collection: Wise
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.Collection: Harmony
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.Collection: Love
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Philosophy
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.Collection: Love
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Spiritual
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.Collection: Beauty
My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.Collection: Intuition
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.Collection: Personality
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.Collection: Pain
Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.Collection: Imagination
There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.Collection: Journey
When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.Collection: Ocean
As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Lying
In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.Collection: Musician
Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.Collection: Lying
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than musicCollection: Mean
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Horizon
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.Collection: Names
Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.Collection: Healing
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.Collection: People
Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.Collection: Pain
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.Collection: Beauty
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.Collection: Religious
The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Happiness
The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.Collection: Tolerance
The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.Collection: Perfect
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.Collection: Uplifting
A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.Collection: Masters
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.Collection: Wise
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.Collection: Spiritual
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.Collection: Soul
For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.Collection: Men
People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's track in life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should hold high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out to light one's path.Collection: Fall
In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.Collection: Secret
He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.Collection: Blow
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.Collection: Reality