He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of giving over hoarding material wealth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan articulates a profound truth about the nature of wealth and contentment. When one spends money, it is seen as a form of utilization, while merely collecting wealth leads to loss, either of purpose or connection. In contrast, the act of giving is portrayed as a way to preserve true treasureβan everlasting legacy that enriches both the giver and the recipient.
In practice
This quote can be used in a charity fundraiser to inspire potential donors.
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.
Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it's always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
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