Category: Letters to mureeds

In a recent conversation, the question arose about doing practices when we are in a bad mood – feeling angry, for example, or caught up in some other way in Continue Reading →

The tale about the businessman asking Sri Ramakrishna to send the goddess Maha Kali to visit him is worth examining, for it displays a profound truth. In the world of Continue Reading →

The ancient Roman god Janus, from whom we have the name of the first month of the year, is portrayed as having two faces, one looking back upon what has Continue Reading →

There is a tradition in Scandinavia, and in various parts of Europe, that at the time of Christmas – some say from the stroke of midnight when the baby Jesus Continue Reading →

This time of year, it is easy to remember the cycles of nature in which we live. In the north, (setting aside for the moment, with apologies, readers in the Continue Reading →

When Bullhe Shah tells us that the divine is found by those of pure heart, it might make us think of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s explanation of purity, expressed in several Continue Reading →

It is possible that some readers of the Inner Call ‘swiped left,’ as the saying is, when they saw the recently posted lecture from Hazrat Inayat Khan on conventionality. Many Continue Reading →

Our conversation turned around this saying from the Gayan Suras : Blessed are they who cover the scars of others even from their own sight. Like many pieces of Sufi Continue Reading →

Very young children believe that bigger must equal heavier. If you show them a large empty box and a brick, they will be sure that the box must be heavier Continue Reading →

How shall we receive the words of mystics such as those of Ruzbihan Baqli in this post? We might think, “Well, some people are lucky – or blessed – aren’t Continue Reading →