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A Sufi teacher and musician who introduced Sufism to the Western world. His teachings emphasized the unity of all religions and the importance of love, harmony, and beauty as spiritual ideals. Through his writings and music, he sought to inspire individuals to experience the divine presence in everyday life and to transcend the limitations of the ego. His legacy continues to influence spiritual seekers, artists, and musicians worldwide.

Hazrat Inayat Khan Icon Image
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A Sufi teacher and musician who introduced Sufism to the Western world. His teachings emphasized the unity of all religions and the importance of love, harmony, and beauty as spiritual ideals. Through his writings and music, he sought to inspire individuals to experience the divine presence in everyday life and to transcend the limitations of the ego. His legacy continues to influence spiritual seekers, artists, and musicians worldwide.

My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

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Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

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We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

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Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

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Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

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True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

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In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

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When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.

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People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

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Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

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To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

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Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

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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.

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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.

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If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

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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.

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The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

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He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.

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One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

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As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

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All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

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Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.

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Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

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