Vilayat Inayat Khan quotes

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

#Real #Caring #Self

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

#Grace #Ugly #May

Everything is energy in motion.
-- Vilayat Inayat Khan

#Energy #Miscellaneous

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

#Vision #Would Be #Might

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

#Freedom #Men #Liberty

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

#Sleep #Light #Illumination

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.
-- Vilayat Inayat Khan

#Dream #Wish #Consciousness

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

#Death #Survival #Return

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

#Heart #Order #Heaven

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

#Creativity #Routine #Spirit

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

#Imagination #Waiting #Power Of Imagination

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

#Men #Perfection #Perfect

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

#Mother #Pain #Heart