Top 200 Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

152. “All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

153. “The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived, and into which all again merges in time, is a silent, motionless and eternal life which among the Sufis is called Zat. Every motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations. Within one vibration are created many vibrations.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

154. “The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one’s presence would be healing.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

155. “In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

156. “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.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

157. “The one thing to rely upon is God’s favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life’s purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

158. “People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

159. “The study of one year and the meditation of one day are equal. By this meditation is meant the right kind of meditation. If a person closes his eyes and sits doing nothing, he may just as well go to sleep. Meditation is not only an exercise to be practiced; in meditation the soul is charged with new light and life, with inspiration and vigor; in meditation there is every kind of blessing.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

160. “Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

161. “Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

162. “There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one’s own life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

163. “Heaven and hell are the material manifestation of agreeable and disagreeable thoughts.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

164. “Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.”

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165. “Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

166. “To the question, ‘What is God?’ and ‘What is man?’ the answer is that the soul, conscious of its limited existence, is ‘man’, and the soul reflected by the vision of the unlimited, is ‘God’. In plain words man’s self-consciousness is man, and man’s consciousness of his highest ideal is God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

167. “It is easy to know truth, but most difficult to be truth. It is not in knowing truth that life’s purpose is accomplished; life’s purpose is accomplished in being truth.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

168. “The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

169. “One moment standing in the midst of nature with open heart is a whole lifetime, if one is in tune with nature.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

170. “We are all in this world travelers, and those near to us or those whom we see, they are the ones we meet on our journey. And therefore, it is an opportunity of thinking of our duty towards them. Neither shall we be with them always, nor will they be with us. Life is a dream in which we are thrown, a dream which is ever changing. Therefore an opportunity lost of considering our little obligations in our everyday life, which.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

171. “The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

172. “A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

173. “There are two aspects of life: the first is that man is tuned by his surroundings, and the second is that man can tune himself in spite of his surroundings.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

174. “The true use of music is to become musical in one’s thoughts, words and actions. One should be able to give the harmony for which the soul yearns and longs every moment. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony, and harmony is best given by producing it in one’s own life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

175. “The true way of progressing through music is to evolve freely, to go forward, not caring what others think, and in this way, together with one’s development in music, to harmonize the life of one’s soul, one’s surroundings and one’s affairs.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

176. “In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

177. “Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

178. “Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.”

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179. “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

180. “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.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

181. “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

182. “For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

183. “When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

184. “Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

185. “If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

186. “If one has learned while on earth to create joy and happiness for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds one. And if one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth the fruits of these one must reap there; that is where one sees justice as the nature of life. The idea of.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

187. “What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

188. “There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

189. “He cannot act except with kindness, he cannot feel anything but forgiveness; every movement he makes, everything he does, speaks of his love, but not his lips.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

190. “The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

191. “Vocal music is considered to be the highest, for it is natural; the effect produced by an instrument which is merely a machine cannot be compared with that of the human voice. However perfect strings may be, they cannot make the same impression on the listener as the voice which comes direct from the soul as breath, and has been brought to the surface through the medium of the mind and the vocal organs of the body.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

192. “All labor and toil, however hard and difficult, is made easy by the power of rhythm in some way or other. This idea opens to the thinker a means for a still deeper study of life.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

193. “If the soul does not hear the call and sleeps, it is not the fault of nature, which is continually calling. Therefore, if I were to say in a few words, how to find one’s purpose, I would say: by waking from sleep.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

195. “The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

196. “How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

197. “Therefore the Sufi attends to his own journey, and does not judge others.”

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198. “What you are speaks louder than what you say.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

199. “The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

200. “Therefore, the person living the inner life never condemns and does not criticize the objects of another, however small or ridiculous they may appear, for he knows that every object in the life of a person is but a stepping stone which leads him forward if he only wishes to go forward.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan