Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Real religion is no religion at all.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

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.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.