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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.

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Hazrat Inayat Khan
Age: 44 †
Born: 1882
Born: July 5
Died: 1927
Died: February 5
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Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan Pathan
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Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.
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I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
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He who has spent has used he who has collected has lost but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.
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Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.
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What you are speaks louder than what you say.
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Love that ends is the shadow of love true love is without beginning or end.
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Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.
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Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
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In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
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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.
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By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
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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.
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Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
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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.
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Failure in life does not matter the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
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