List of Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Those Who Have A Desire To Teach While Coming To Learn Should Not Pose As Disciples; They Must Come As Teachers.

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.

Music, The Word We Use In Our Everyday Language, Is Nothing Less Than The Picture Of Our Beloved. It Is Because Music Is The Picture Of Our Beloved That We Love Music.

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.

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.

Things Appear Different From Every Different Plane From Which You Look At Them, And When A Person Standing On Flat Earth Asks A Person Standing On Top Of A Mountain, "do You Also Believe Something?" The Person Cannot Tell Much. The Questioner Must Come To The Top Of The Mountain And See. There Can Be No Link Of Conversation Between Them Until That Time.

Be Contented With What You Possess In Life; Be Thankful For What Does Not Belong To You, For It Is So Much Less Care; But Try To Obtain What You Need, And Make The Best Of Every Moment Of Your Life.

If There Is Such A Thing As Saintly Renunciation, It Is Renouncing Small Gains For Better Gains; Not For No Gains, But Seeing With Open Eyes What Is Better And What Is Inferior. Even If The Choice Has To Lie Between Two Momentary Gains, One Of These Would Always Be Found To Be More Real And Lasting; That Is The One That Should Be Followed For The Time.

Peace Is Perfected Activity.

I Played The Vina Until My Heart Turned Into The Same Instrument. Then I Offered This Instrument To The Divine Musician, The Only Muscian Existing. Since Then I Have Become His Flute, And When He Chooses He Plays His Music. The People Give Me Credit For This Music Which, In Reality, Is Not Due To Me, But To The Musician Who Plays His Own Instrument.

It Is Through This Physical Body That The Highest And Greatest Purpose Of Life Is Achieved. A Person Only Calls It The Physical Body In Ignorance. Once The Knowledge Has Come...he Begins To Look Upon It As The Sacred Temple Of God.

Many Say That Life Entered The Human Body By The Help Of Music, But The Truth Is That Life Itself Is Music.