Vilayat Quotes & Sayings

You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing. The realm of imagination is a bridge between them, constantly refashioning one in terms of the other. Plato's philosopher-king knew this and so did the blind censor, so it was perhaps not surprising that the Islamic Republic's first task had been to blur the lines and boundaries between the personal and the political, thereby destroying both. — Azar Nafisi

All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. — Naomi Novik

Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that. — Dan Stevens

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. — Clarice Lispector

Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. — Mark Nepo

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Everything is energy in motion. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again - and then throw himself at her feet. — Tara Janzen

The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination
aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

So I build my own nest and feather it with thoughts of you. — Ruta Sepetys

I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people. — Ravi Shankar

Me and Frosted went to get a drink.
But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think.
She ordered potassium, calcium,
Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium.
She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch ...
I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth. — LL Cool J

The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold. — Jimmy Hill

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. — Jack Vance

In dream consciousness ... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. — Pir Vilayat Khan

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering. — Dani Shapiro

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. — Pir Vilayat Khan

Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure. — Katherine Boo

I have a healthy amount of humility. — Seth Gordon

My son the general!" King Tiberias booms, his proud voice cutting through the din of the party. For a second, when he pulls Cal close, putting an arm around his son, I forget he's a king. I almost understand Cal's need to please him. What would I give to see my mother look at me like that, back when I was nothing but a thief? What would I give now? This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white. — Victoria Aveyard