Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes about Body
There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.
Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.
Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.