Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan

“I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire ...”

“We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infan...”

“Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

“Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them.The Sufis of all ages have been known for their beautiful personality. It does not mean that among them ther...”

“If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.”

“It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. Howeve...”

“Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough se...”

“Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate...”

“The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.”

“The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.”

“Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”

“There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from...”

“Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.”

“Selfishness keeps man blind through life.”

“To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.”