• Art without beauty,

poetry without inspiration, music without feeling, science without reason, philosophy without logic, religion without devotion, mysticism with out ecstasy are like a lake without water. A joke without wit, a speech without meaning, tears without romance, learning without wisdom, position without honor, a heart without love, a head without thought are like the space without the air. A man without manly courage, a woman without womanly grace, a child without a child's simplicity, an infant without an infant's innocence, a lover without willing sacrifice, a worshipper without the ideal of God, a giver without great modesty are like a king without a kingdom.

- Inayat Khan

• The prophet is the painter of that ideal which is beyond man's comprehension. What does it matter if Krishna was Christ, or Brahma was Abraham? One thing is true: that there was, there is, and there always will be a knower of God, a lover of souls, a server of humanity.

- Inayat Khan

• Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Hafiz

• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Rumi

Pour arriver à son idéal, L'homme doit commencer par reconnaître ses folies, Puis essayer de s'améliorer, Avec la certitude qu'il peut changer.

Inayat Khan

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.” ― Rumi

“People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.” ― Rumi

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ― Rumi

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” ― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ― Rumi

“Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.” ― Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

“You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!” ― Rumi

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames” ― Rumi

“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.” ― Rumi

“Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ” ― Rumi

“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.” ― Rumi

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” ― Rumi

The soul in itself alone is not other than consciousness, which is all pervading. But when the same consciousness is caught in a limitation through being surrounded by elements, in that state of captivity, it is called soul. ... Every experience on the physical or astral plane is just a dream before the soul. It is ignorance when it takes this experience to be real. It does so because it cannot see itself; as the eye sees all things, but not itself. Therefore, the soul identifies itself with all things that it sees, and changes its own identity with the change of its constantly changing vision.

The soul has no birth, no death, no beginning, and no end. Sin cannot touch it, nor can virtue exalt it. Wisdom cannot open it up, nor can ignorance darken it. It has been always and always it will be. This is the very being of man, and all else is its cover, like a globe on the light. The soul's unfoldment comes from its own power, which ends in its breaking through the ties of the lower planes. It is free by nature, and looks for freedom during its captivity. All the holy beings of the world have become so by freeing the soul, its freedom being the only object there is in life.

- Hinayat Khan