Top 200 Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

202. “Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

203. “What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

204. “He who is of lower evolution cannot love a higher object. But a person of higher evolution can love the lower as well as the higher. He who once loves cannot hate. The one who hates is he who cannot appreciate.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

205. “Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is.”

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

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207. “The nature of the ray is to extend and withdraw, to appear and disappear; and the duration of its existence is short when compared with the duration of the eternal.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

208. “Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

209. “The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.”

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210. “Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name.”

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211. “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

212. “All things we possess are taken from others, and others in their turn await with outstretched hands to seize them.”

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213. “The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

214. “For those on the spiritual path, thinkers, students and meditative souls, it is of the greatest importance to know the condition of their spirit from time to time by consulting their voice. That is their barometer.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

215. “As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.”

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216. “The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

217. “Nothing is as old as the truth, and nothing is as new as the truth.”

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218. “The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

219. “What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.”

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220. “If one being or thing, however apparently useless, were missing in this universe of endless variety, it would be as it were a note missing in a song.”

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221. “It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.”

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222. “Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.”

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223. “It is I who was, if there were any. What I had thought to be myself was not myself, but was my experience. I am all that there is, and it is myself who will be, whoever there will be. It is I who am the source, the traveler, and the goal of this existence. ‘Verily truth is all the religion there is; and it is truth which will save.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

224. “One who has learned friendship has learned religion; the one who has learned friendship has attained spiritual knowledge. The one who has leaned friendship need learn very little else; morals in Persian is friendship.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

225. “Every motion contains within itself a thought and feeling.”

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226. “One makes one’s nature by one’s likes and dislikes, by what one favors or disfavors. When a person says, ‘I don’t like this food,’ he has built something into his nature. And then that food, when eaten, will often disagree with him. It is not that it was meant to disagree with him, but he made it disagree by disliking it. By.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

227. “Life is revealing. It is not only human beings who speak; if only the ears can hear even plants and trees and all nature speak, in the sense that nature reveals itself, reveals its secret. In this way we communicate with the whole of life. Then we are never alone, then life becomes worth living.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

228. “If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.”

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229. “Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.”

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230. “Every sacred scripture, holy picture or spoken word, produces the impression of its identity upon the mirror of the soul; but music stands before the soul without producing any impression of this objective world, in either name or form, thus preparing the soul to realize the Infinite.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

231. “It must be remembered as the first principle of life that manifestation was destined for keener observation of life within and without.”

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232. “As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism.”

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233. “Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.”

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234. “One need not fall in love; one must rise through love.”

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235. “It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man’s pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something – but he does not know where it leads him.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

236. “This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

237. “As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

238. “At each step from the inner being to the surface there is an apparent improvement, which appears to be more positive; yet every step towards the surface entails limitation and dependence.”

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239. “Each note, each scale, and each strain expires at the appointed time; and at the end of the soul’s experience here the finale comes; but the impression remains, as a concert in a dream, before the radiant vision of the consciousness.”

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240. “Besides this it is necessary that man, before starting his journey, realizes that he has fulfilled his duties, his duty to those around him and his duty to God. But one who considers his duty to those around him sacredly does his duty to God.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

241. “Ist die Seele auf Gott gestimmt, so wird jedes Tun zu Musik.”

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242. “To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.”

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243. “The more he is open to all that is beautiful and harmonious, the more his life is tuned to that universal harmony and the more he will show a friendly attitude towards everyone he meets. His very atmosphere will create music around him.”

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244. “Wisdom is like the horizon: the nearer you approach it, the further it recedes.”

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245. “When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music.”

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246. “He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan