I asked for strength, Hazrat Inayat Khan More Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan More Quotes From Hazrat Inayat Khan When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart. Hazrat Inayat Khan ocean eye heart Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies. Hazrat Inayat Khan eye real war Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. Hazrat Inayat Khan funny-friend beautiful beauty In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego. Hazrat Inayat Khan crush ego self Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own. Hazrat Inayat Khan tone pieces personality The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted. Hazrat Inayat Khan tuning radio voice God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open. Hazrat Inayat Khan healing heart love I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me. Hazrat Inayat Khan evil joy heaven What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Hazrat Inayat Khan mystery vibrations art 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 being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy. Hazrat Inayat Khan light heart men 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. Hazrat Inayat Khan gratitude feelings joy There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything. Hazrat Inayat Khan voice secret character 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 has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now. Hazrat Inayat Khan waiting heaven lying Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs. Hazrat Inayat Khan essence love-is philosophy There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey. Hazrat Inayat Khan destination differences journey Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. Hazrat Inayat Khan voice inspiration healing Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view. Hazrat Inayat Khan progress spiritual views Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. Hazrat Inayat Khan sufi lack-of-love sin As water in a fountain flows as one stream, Hazrat Inayat Khan space water fall His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another. 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