Top 200 Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one’s faith or belief, belongs to God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

52. “To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

53. “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.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

54. “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

55. “Selfishness keeps man blind through life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

56. “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 voice, but no sound can be more living.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

57. “I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

58. “Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

59. “In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation...”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

60. “By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

61. “With love, even the rocks will open.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

62. “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

63. “Reason is the illusion of reality.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

64. “Every man’s path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

65. “The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

66. “Patient endurance is a sign of progress.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

67. “The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

68. “Movement is life; stillness is death.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

69. “People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

70. “There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

71. “To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

72. “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.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

73. “The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

74. “When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

76. “Indifference and independence are the two wings which enable the soul to fly.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

77. “He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

78. “The lover’s pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

79. “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.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

80. “Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

81. “Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

82. “All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

83. “I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

84. “The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

85. “As long as in love there is “you” and “me,” love is not fully kindled.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

86. “When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

87. “The soul’s true happiness lies in experiencing the inner joy, and it will never be fully satisfied with outer, seeming pleasures. Its connection is with God, and nothing short of perfection will ever satisfy it.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

88. “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

89. “The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

90. “Peace is perfected activity.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

91. “To be really sorry for one’s errors is like opening the door of Heaven.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

92. “And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means of absorbing it. In other words, by music the world was created, and by music it is withdrawn again into the source which has created it.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

93. “There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

94. “The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

95. “Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

96. “The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one. Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; ‘I and my Father are one.’ The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

97. “Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

98. “Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

99. “Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the newborn soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

100. “I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan