Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
Interpretation
Atmosphere influences our emotions and experiences like music does.
In this quote, Hazrat Inayat Khan suggests that the atmosphere around us possesses a quality similar to music, impacting our feelings and moods in profound ways. Whether it brings excitement or tranquility, the environment serves as an unseen but powerful force that shapes our experiences and perceptions.
In practice
During a meditation session, I reminded my group that 'atmosphere is a silent music' to emphasize the calming effect of our surroundings.
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.
I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. _x000D_ Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
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.
Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.
I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
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