All ignorance is the lack of love. Hazrat Inayat Khan More Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan More Quotes From Hazrat Inayat Khan Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it. Hazrat Inayat Khan perseverance spiritual heaven Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood. Hazrat Inayat Khan inspiration uplifting spiritual The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, Hazrat Inayat Khan together heart character Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world. Hazrat Inayat Khan world Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise. Hazrat Inayat Khan sculpture spiritual art There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble. Hazrat Inayat Khan faults humble thinking The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself. Hazrat Inayat Khan analysis vibrations art Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock. Hazrat Inayat Khan pain heart inspirational God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other. Hazrat Inayat Khan fire law love-is The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God. Hazrat Inayat Khan men two looks Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards. Hazrat Inayat Khan poverty half self The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Hazrat Inayat Khan creativity acceptance rose From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless. Hazrat Inayat Khan music views art By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves. Hazrat Inayat Khan divine-beauty divine persons Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. Hazrat Inayat Khan mystery causes sound If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others. Hazrat Inayat Khan grudge tolerance people Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you. Hazrat Inayat Khan meals joy giving The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind. Hazrat Inayat Khan health doubt men 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. Hazrat Inayat Khan goal wise men 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. Hazrat Inayat Khan consciousness care self
