Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

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 teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

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.

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