Hazrat Inayat Khan
Indian musician and Sufi master who introduced Universal Sufism to the West in 1910. Born into a family of Sufi musicians in Vadodara, he was a virtuoso of the vina before he became a mystic. After meeting his teacher Sayyid Muhammad Madani, he was sent westward with the instruction to "harmonize East and West with the music of thy soul." He founded the Sufi Order in the West, taught in Europe and America for seventeen years, and left behind The Sufi Message — fourteen volumes of teachings on love, harmony, beauty, and the unity of religious ideals.
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Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan
106 quotes“The heart of every man is the temple of God.”
heartThe Bowl of Saki
“My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.”
stillnessGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“Some have an open heart, some a heart half open, and some have closed it. The closed heart is the worst, for it cannot let love in or out.”
heartThe Sufi Message
“Music is the bridge between heaven and earth.”
musicThe Mysticism of Sound and Music
“Sound is the highest source of manifestation.”
soundThe Mysticism of Sound and Music
“The voice of God is heard in the silence.”
silenceThe Sufi Message
“It is by the silence of the soul that we hear the voice of God.”
silenceThe Inner Life
“Be all and do all, but at the same time be not, and do not.”
paradoxGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“Every soul is meant to do something special.”
purposeThe Sufi Message
“To be alive without being aware of the source of life, is like being a bird in a golden cage.”
awarenessThe Bowl of Saki
“The truth need not be veiled, for it veils itself.”
truthGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“There is one teacher, God Himself; we are all His pupils.”
teacherThe Sufi Message
“The pain of love is far greater than the pleasure of love.”
loveThe Bowl of Saki
“He who knows how to harmonize his life will find harmony everywhere.”
harmonyThe Sufi Message
“The art of personality is to attain to that beauty which is the soul of all beauty.”
beautyThe Inner Life
“To be sincere with oneself is the most difficult thing.”
sincerityGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“Words are but the shell. Meaning is the kernel.”
meaningThe Bowl of Saki
“Every soul has its own range of expression, by sound, by movement, and by color.”
expressionThe Mysticism of Sound and Music
“The whole secret of mysticism is this: that one finds out the source of life and the goal of life.”
mysticismThe Sufi Message
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