Vilayat Khan 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything is energy in motion. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

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

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

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

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