To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death. For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled;… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
