Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.