Vilayat Inayat Khan Quotes

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Everything is energy in motion.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination
aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.