371 Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Meditation bedeutet, tief in uns hinabzutauchen und hoch in höhere Sphären aufzusteigen und weiter zu werden als das Universum. In diesen Erfahrungen erleben wir die Seligkeit der Meditation. Wir sollten jeden Tag unseres Lebens in eine Meditation verwandeln. (S. 163)

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

There are many things in the life of a Sufi, but 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.

One who has learned friendship has learned religion; the one who has learned friendship has attained spiritual knowledge. The one who has leaned friendship need learn very little else; morals in Persian is friendship.

If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.

The spark that one finds for a moment and that becomes dim does not belong to heaven, for in heaven all things are lasting; it must belong to some other place. Love has become a word from the dictionary, a word that is used a thousand times a day, which means nothing. To the one who knows what it means, love means patience, love means endurance, love means tolerance, love means sacrifice, love means service.