Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Inayat Khanwas the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914and teacher of Universal Sufism. He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific "Tansen" from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement". His message...
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 July 1882
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Reason is the illusion of reality
pain healing remedy
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.
dancing soul bells
When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.
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You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
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The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.
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Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
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As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
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For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.
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Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
people study human-nature
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
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In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ...
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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.