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.
Interpretation
Music resonates with our entire existence, reflecting our inner and outer worlds.
In this quote, Hazrat Inayat Khan suggests that music is not just an art form but an integral part of our being. He emphasizes that our thoughts, emotions, and even the environment around us contribute to the symphony of life, making music a universal language that connects us to ourselves and the world.
In practice
During a workshop on the healing powers of music, this quote can illustrate the deep connection between individuals and music.
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.
Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
I think that youβve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
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