Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
Interpretation
Life is like a symphony where everyone contributes in their unique way.
This quote by Hazrat Inayat Khan illustrates the idea that life is a collaborative and harmonious experience, akin to a symphony where each individual plays a vital role. It emphasizes the importance of each person's actions as they contribute to the larger unfolding of life's musical composition, suggesting that we all have a part to play in creating beauty and meaning in the world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about teamwork and the importance of individual contributions.
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.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
On the one hand maybe Iβve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!
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