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“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Dance of the Soul: Gayan, Vadan, Nirtan

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
― Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Thinking Like the Universe: The Sufi Path of Awakening

“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Moth: I gave you my life.

Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.”
― Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

“‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
― Aristotle, Selected Works

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
― Aristotle

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
― Aristotle

“Through discipline comes freedom.”
― Aristotle

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
― Aristotle

“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God”
― Aristotle

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
― Aristotle

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
― Aristotle

“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
― Aristotle

“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
― Aristotle

“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
― Aristotle

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
― Aristotle

“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
― Aristotle