Inayat Khan Quotes Page 3

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

“There is no end to one’s faults. To think of them makes one humble.”

“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.”

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

“To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.”

“To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.”

“What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind.”

“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.”

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

“Whatever your life's pursuit – art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be – you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.”

“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”

“Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”