Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

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.

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

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. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

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.

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

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.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

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.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.