Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

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

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Nature, Heart, Inspire

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

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love, Healing, Heart

• As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Eye

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

• If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Answers, Kind

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Character, Together

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

• Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Love Is, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.20, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

• 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.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Pain, 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.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

• I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Heart, Reality

• All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Longing, Produce

  "The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings".

• The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Kindness, Heart, Judging People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

• If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Flames, Torches

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

• The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1974). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, Four Plays”, p.144, Library of Alexandria

• If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

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  Attitude, Love You, Heart

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.194, Library of Alexandria

• Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Men, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Men, Fellow Man

• Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Prayer, Heart, Two

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1982). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Healing, Mental Purification and the Mind World”, p.467, Library of Alexandria

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