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
yoga humanity divinity
The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
bridges form seems
Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
heart men fellow-man
The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.
men two looks
The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.
secret mankind interest
In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.
heart character together
The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
soul veils thousand
The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
harmony born
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
teacher mistake loss
The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped.
secret balance life-is
The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
kissing flames kiss-me
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
wise views soul
... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
vision harmony glory
By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
wisdom islamic light
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.