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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.

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The Greatest Is To

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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.

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The More Sincerity Is Developed, The Greater Share Of Truth You Will Have. And However Much Sincerity A Person May Have, There Is Always A Gap To Fill, For We Live In The Midst Of Falsehood, And We Are Always Apt To Be Carried Away By This World Of Falsehood. Therefore We Must Never Think We Are Sincere Enough, And We Must Always Be On Our Guard Against Influences Which May Carry Us Away From That Sincerity Which Is The Bridge Between Ourselves And Our Ideal. No Study, No Meditation Is More Helpful Than Sincerity Itself.

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.

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What A Great Thing Is Understanding! It Is Priceless. No Man Can Give Greater Pleasure To His Fellow Man Than By Understanding Him.

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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.

Love Is The Divine Mother's Arms; When Those Arms Are Spread, Every Soul Falls Into Them.

What We Call Music In Our Everyday Language Is Only A Miniature, Which Our Intelligence Has Grasped From That Music Or Harmony Of The Whole Universe Which Is Working Behind Everything, And Which Is The Source And Origin Of Nature. It Is Because Of This That The Wise Of All Ages Have Considered Music To Be A Sacred Art. For In Music The Seer Can See The Picture Of The Whole Universe; And The Wise Can Interpret The Secret And Nature Of The Working Of The Whole Universe In The Realm Of Music.

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Life Is A Symphony, And The Action Of Every Person In This Life Is The Playing Of His Particular Part In The Music.

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Love Is The Essence Of All Religion, Mysticism, And Philosophy, And For The One Who Has Learned This, Love Fulfills The Purpose Of Religion, Ethics, And Philosophy, And The Lover Is Raised Above All Diversities Of Faiths And Beliefs.

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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.

It Is Not Solid Wood That Can Become A Flute, But The Empty Reed.

I Have Known Good And Evil, Sin And Virtue, Right And Wrong; I Have Judged And Been Judged; I Have Passed Through Birth And Death, Joy And Sorrow, Heaven And Hell; And In The End I Realized That I Am In Everything And Everything Is In Me.

What One Really Wants Is Attracted By One, And One Is Attracted By What One Wants.

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.

To Be Really Sorry For One's Errors Is Like Opening The Door Of Heaven.

When We Pay Attention To Nature's Music, We Find That Everything On The Earth Contributes To Its Harmony.

Love Manifests Towards Those Whom We Like As Love; Towards Those Whom We Do Not Like As Forgiveness.

All That Produces Longing In The Heart Deprives It Of Its Freedom.

Selfishness Keeps Man Blind Through Life.

In The Eyes Of A Seer, Every Leaf Of A Tree Is A Page Of The Holy Book And Contains Divine Revelation.

One Must Always Say Every Word With Consideration, And Should Not Say What One Does Not Wish To Happen. Those Who Do Not Understand The Value Of Suggestion Walk After Their Own Fate With A Whip In Their Hand, And Those Who Understand Its Value And Control Their Word And Use It Rightly, They Are A Bliss To Themselves And A Source Of Happiness To Others.

What You Are Speaks Louder Than What You Say.

All Names And Forms Are The Garbs And Covers Under Which The One Life Is Hidden.

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.

Every Moment Of Life Brings An Opportunity For Being Conscious Of Human Feeling, In Prosperity, In Adversity, In All Conditions. It Costs Very Little; Only A Little Thought Is Necessary. There Is No Greater Religion Than Love. God Is Love; And The Best Form Of Love Is To Be Conscientious Regarding The Feelings Of Those With Whom We Come In Contact In Everyday Life.

Self-pity Is The Worst Poverty. When A Person Says, 'i Am...' With Pity, Before He Has Said Anything More He Has Diminished Himself To Half Of What He Is; And What Is Said Further, Diminishes Him Totally; Nothing More Of Him Is Left Afterwards.

Love Develops Into Harmony, And Of Harmony Is Born Beauty.

One Is Never So Strong As When One Is Broken.

Love Itself Is The Healing Power And The Remedy For All Pain.

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.

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.

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.

The Solution To The Problem Of The Day Is The Awakening Of The Consciousness Of Humanity To The Divinity Within.

... 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.

Each Individual Composes The Music Of His Own Life. If He Injures Another, He Brings Disharmony. When His Sphere Is Disturbed, He Is Disturbed Himself, And There Is A Discord In The Melody Of His Life. If He Can Quicken The Feeling Of Another To Joy Or To Gratitude, By That Much He Adds To His Own Life; He Becomes Himself By That Much More Alive. Whether Conscious Of It Or Not, His Thought Is Affected For The Better By The Joy Or Gratitude Of Another, And His Power And Vitality Increase Thereby, And The Music Of His Life Grows More In Harmony.

The Soul Is Covered By A Thousand Veils.

Our Virtues Are Made By Love, And Our Sins Are Caused By The Lack Of It.

‎"intellect Is The Knowledge Obtained By Experience Of Names And Forms; Wisdom Is The Knowledge Which Manifests Only From The Inner Being; To Acquire Intellect One Must Delve Into Studies, But To Obtain Wisdom, Nothing But The Flow Of Divine Mercy Is Needed; It Is As Natural As The Instinct Of Swimming To The Fish, Or Of Flying To The Bird. Intellect Is The Sight Which Enables One To See Through The External World, But The Light Of Wisdom Enables One To See Through The External Into The Internal World.

The Highest And Greatest Goal That Every Soul Has To Reach Is God. As Everything Needs Renunciation, That Highest Goal Needs The Highest Renunciation.

The Wonderful Thing Is That The Soul Already Knows To Some Extent That There Is Something Behind The Veil, The Veil Of Perplexity, That There Is Something To Be Sought For In The Highest Spheres Of Life, That There Is Some Beauty To Be Seen, That There Is Someone To Be Known Who Is Knowable.

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.

For The Value Of Everything Exists For Man Only So Long As He Does Not Understand It. When He Has Fully Understood, The Value Is Lost, Be It The Lowest Thing Or The Highest Thing.

Joy And Sorrow Are The Light And Shade Of Life; Without Light And Shade No Picture Is Clear.

People Have Fought In Vain About The Names And Lives Of Their Saviors, And Have Named Their Religions After The Name Of Their Savior, Instead Of Uniting With Each Other In The Truth That Is Taught.

The Lover's Pleasure Is In The Pleasure Of The Beloved. The Lover Is Satisfied When The Beloved Is Fed. The Lover Is Vain When The Beloved Is Adorned.

Music Seems To Be The Bridge Over The Gulf Between Form And The Formless.

I Have Found In Every Word A Certain Musical Value, A Melody In Every Thought, Harmony In Every Feeling, And I Have Tried To Interpret The Same Things With Clear And Simple Words To Those Who Used To Listen To My Music.

When People Came To Christ Accusing A Person Of Doing Wrong, The Master Could Not Think Of Anything Else But Forgiveness. For He Did Not See In The Wrongdoer What The Others Saw. To Distinguish Between Right And Wrong Is Not The Work Of An Ordinary Mind, And The Curious Thing Is That The More Ignorant A Person Is, The More Ready He Is To Do So.

Love That Ends Is The Shadow Of Love; True Love Is Without Beginning Or End.

Divine Sound Is The Cause Of All Manifestation. The Knower Of The Mystery Of Sound Knows The Mystery Of The Whole Universe.

The Happiness Of This World Is Something We Cannot Keep; It Is Just Like The Horizon - The Nearer You Go, The Farther It Goes. As Soon As You Get It, You See It Is Not The Thing You Wanted.

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.

Love Is The Merchandise Which All The World Demands; If You Store It In Your Heart, Every Soul Will Become Your Customer.

Spiritual Progress Is The Changing Of The Point Of View.

It Is A Presumption On The Part Of Man When He Demands In Words An Explanation Of God.

Moth: I Gave You My Life. Flame: I Allowed You To Kiss Me.

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.

There Is Nothing Better Than Music As A Means For Upliftment Of The Soul.

Mankind Is Interdependent, And The Happiness Of Each Depends Upon The Happiness Of All, And It Is This Lesson That Humanity Has To Learn Today As The First And The Last Lesson.

Once You Have Given Up Your Limited Self Willingly To The Unlimited, You Will Rejoice So Much In That Consciousness That You Will Not Care To Be Small Again.

Now If I Do Anything It Is To Tune Souls Instead Of Instruments. To Harmonize People Instead Of Notes. If There Is Anything In My Philosophy, It Is The Law Of Harmony: That One Must Put Oneself In Harmony With Oneself And With Others.

To Bring The Sublime Into The Mundane Is The Greatest Challenge There Is.

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.

The Purpose Of Creation Is Beauty. Nature In All Its Various Aspects Develops Towards Beauty, And Therefore It Is Plain That The Purpose Of Life Is To Evolve Towards Beauty.

There Is Nothing In The World That Does Not Speak To Us. Everything And Everybody Reveals Its Own Nature, Character And Secrets Continuously. The More Open Our Inner Senses, The More We Understand The Voice Of Everything.

People Often Ask Me Questions That I Cannot Very Well Answer In Words, And It Makes Me Sad To Think They Are Unable To Hear The Voice Of My Silence.

Instead Of Lamenting Your Fate, Create Your World.

The Rain Does Not Fall In A Certain Land Only; The Sun Does Not Shine Only On A Particular Country. All That Comes From God Is For All Souls. Verily, Blessing Is For Every Soul; For Every Soul, Whatever Be One's Faith Or Belief, Belongs To God.

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.

He Who Gives Love Will Receive A Thousandfold In Return.

If You Will Not Rise Above The Things Of This World, They Will Rise Above You.

The Gardener Uses Both Roses In The Flowerbed And Thorns In Making Fences.

God Breaks The Heart Again And Again And Again Until It Stays Open.

Repose Is The Secret Of All Contemplation And Meditation, The Secret Of Getting In Tune With That Aspect Of Life Which Is The Essence Of All Things. When One Is Not Accustomed To Take Repose, One Does Not Know What Is Behind One's Being.

As Water In A Fountain Flows As One Stream, But Falls In Many Drops Divided By Time And Space, So Are The Revelations Of The One Stream Of Truth.

People In The World Wish To Make Things Rigid, Things Which Are Of The Finest Nature Which Words Cannot Explain. When A Person Describes The Hereafter, It Is Just Like Wanting To Weigh The Soul Or Photograph The Spirit. I Personally Think That You Must Be Able To Realize Yourself What The Hereafter Is. You Must Not Depend Upon My Words.

True Power Is Not In Trying To Gain Power; True Power Is In Becoming Power. But How To Become Power? It Requires An Attempt To Make A Definite Change In Oneself, And That Change Is A Kind Of Struggle With One's False Self.

Our Spirit Is The Real Part Of Us, The Body But Its Garment. A Man Would Not Find Peace At The Tailor's Because His Coat Comes From There; Neither Can The Spirit Obtain True Happiness From The Earth Just Because His Body Belongs To Earth.

I Asked For Strength, And God Gave Me Difficulties To Make Me Strong. I Asked For Wisdom, And God Gave Me Problems To Learn To Solve. I Asked For Prosperity, And God Gave Me A Brain And Brawn To Work. I Asked For Courage, And God Gave Me Dangers To Overcome. I Asked For Love, And God Gave Me People To Help. I Asked For Favors, And God Gave Me Opportunities. I Received Nothing I Wanted. I Received Everything I Needed.

The Secret Of Life Is Balance, And The Absence Of Balance Is Life's Destruction.

The One Thing To Rely Upon Is God's Favor. Do Not Build Either On Your Study Or On Your Meditation, Although They Both Help You. But You Are Dependent On God, Not Even On Your Murshid. Seek Him, Trust Him. In Him Lies Your Life's Purpose, And In Him Is Hidden The Rest Of Your Soul.

Sarcasm Is An Abuse Of The Intellect.

A Person However Learned And Qualified In His Life's Work In Whom Gratitude Is Absent, Is Devoid Of That Beauty Of Character Which Makes Personality Fragrant.

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.

The Souls Of All Are From One And The Same Source But A Soul Which Is Unveiled Shines Out. Love And Light Come Continually From Such Souls. We Need No Proof Of It For It Is Living All Else Is Dead In Comparison.

He Who Once Burns His Mouth On The Hot Soup, Blows Even The Buttermilk.

My Heart Is Tuned To The Quietness That The Stillness Of Nature Inspires.

Humanity, Divine Limitation; Divinity, Human Perfection.

I First Believed Without Any Hesitation In The Existence Of The Soul, And Then I Wondered About The Secret Of Its Nature. I Persevered And Strove In Search Of The Soul, And Found At Last That I Myself Was The Cover Over My Soul!

It Is The Peaceful One Who Is Observant. It Is Peace That Gives Him The Power To Observe Keenly. It Is The Peaceful One, Therefore, Who Can Conceive, For Peace Helps Him To Conceive. It Is The Peaceful Who Can Contemplate; One Who Has No Peace Cannot Contemplate Properly. Therefore, All Things Pertaining To Spiritual Progress In Life Depend Upon Peace.

It Is A Very High Stage In The Path Of Love When Man Really Learns To Love Another With A Love That Asks No Return.

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.

Positive Thinking

Be Contented With What You Possess In Life; Be Thankful For What Does Not Belong To You, For It Is So Much Less Care; But Try To Obtain What You Need, And Make The Best Of Every Moment Of Your Life.

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.

His Constant Fight Is With The Nafs (self-interest), The Root Of All Disharmony And The Only Enemy Of Man. By Crushing This Enemy Man Gains Mastery Over Himself; This Wins For Him Mastery Over The Whole Universe, Because The Wall Standing Between The Self And The Almighty Has Been Broken Down. Gentleness, Mildness, Respect, Humility, Modesty, Self-denial, Conscientiousness, Tolerance And Forgiveness Are Considered By The Sufi As The Attributes Which Produce Harmony Within One's Own Soul As Well As Within That Of Another.

By Our Trust In The Divine Beauty In Every Person We Develop That Beauty In Ourselves.

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