“To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results.… — 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
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
“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
