Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
Interpretation
This quote highlights how differing beliefs can lead to division among people, preventing them from seeing the unity of all existence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan's quote reflects on the profound impact that belief and disbelief have on humanity. He suggests that these opposing forces create divisions among people, leading to various sects and ideologies that hinder our ability to perceive the interconnectedness and unity of all life. By emphasizing 'Oneness', he calls for a deeper understanding and acceptance of each other, transcending superficial differences.
In practice
In a speech advocating for peace and unity during a community gathering.
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.
Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
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.
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
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