Category: Letters to mureeds

Surely everyone has had the experience of suddenly hitting a blank spot in mid-conversation, going from full speed to zero, as it were, while we grope distractedly for whatever it Continue Reading →

In Vadan Tanas, Hazrat Inayat Khan offers us a brief but very illuminating conversation with Death, beginning with this exchange :Death, what are you?      – I am the shadow of life. Continue Reading →

We recently celebrated Visalat Day, the 5th of February, the day on which Hazrat Inayat Khan left this world, and amongst Sufis this moment of transition is sometimes called ‘the Continue Reading →

In his lecture on treating the sick and wounded, Hazrat Inayat Khan tells us that one of the essential qualities needed for healing a person is concentration. He says:When we Continue Reading →

The spiritual path could be described as a wandering search for perfection, but what makes the journey so frustratingly difficult for us is that we live in the world of Continue Reading →

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 →