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.
Interpretation
This quote speaks to the unity of love, harmony, and beauty in the pursuit of spiritual guidance.
Hazrat Inayat Khan emphasizes the importance of love, harmony, and beauty as essential elements in experiencing a deeper spiritual existence. The quote suggests that all enlightened souls are connected in their quest for perfection and serve as guides in our spiritual journey, promoting a sense of universal love and unity that transcends individuality.
In practice
In a speech about unity, one might say: 'As Hazrat Inayat Khan beautifully expresses, we are all connected through love and harmony.'
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.
I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. _x000D_ Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
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.
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
Love is a wonderful, terrible thing
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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