In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
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… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living,… — 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 gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
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; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
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
