He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of giving over hoarding material wealth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan articulates a profound truth about the nature of wealth and contentment. When one spends money, it is seen as a form of utilization, while merely collecting wealth leads to loss, either of purpose or connection. In contrast, the act of giving is portrayed as a way to preserve true treasure—an everlasting legacy that enriches both the giver and the recipient.
In practice
This quote can be used in a charity fundraiser to inspire potential donors.
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.
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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