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“Beauty is unity in variety.”
beautyThe Sufi Message
“Patience is the secret of all success.”
patienceGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“The heart is to the soul what the senses are to the body.”
heartThe Inner Life
“Every wave of the sea has a different form, and yet there is no real difference between them.”
unityThe Sufi Message
“All forms of religion are channels by which the soul reaches God.”
religionThe Sufi Message
“Truth is the same, no matter through whom it manifests.”
truthThe Bowl of Saki
“He alone deserves to be called religious who keeps God in all his thoughts and acts.”
religionThe Sufi Message
“To learn the lesson of life, one must be willing to give what one wants for oneself.”
givingThe Sufi Message
“The cleansing of the heart is the bath of the soul.”
purificationThe Inner Life
“Religion in its essence is purifying the soul.”
religionThe Sufi Message
“To make God a reality is the chief object of all the religions.”
GodThe Sufi Message
“All the names of God are sacred, but the most sacred name is Allah, the One.”
nameThe Sufi Message
“The truth, when veiled by names and forms, is the imperfect truth.”
truthThe Bowl of Saki
“To be sincere with God is to be sincere with one's own self.”
sincerityGayan, Vadan, Nirtan
“The wise of all ages have taught that the purpose of life is to learn to love.”
loveThe Sufi Message
“Be like a flower; spread fragrance everywhere.”
fragranceThe Bowl of Saki
“There is no greater scripture than nature.”
natureThe Sufi Message
“By our action and by our thought we make our world.”
creationThe Inner Life
“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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