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
soul veils thousand
The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
tolerance humanity desire
The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
sea rocks rising
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves
want
What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.
ocean eye heart
When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.
love heart break
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
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.
secret mankind interest
In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.
ears body sound
A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being...
vision harmony glory
By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
balance our-actions should
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
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.
harmony born
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
health men doubt
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.