Quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan

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.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

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

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.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

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.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Peace is perfected activity.

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

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.

Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.