Quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

With love, even the rocks will open.

Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

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

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