Category: Letters to mureeds

A story recently posted here describes an encounter between two travellers, one of whom, notwithstanding his good appearance, is revealed to be Satan.  The story has raised some questions, and Continue Reading →

In a recent post about caring for the desire to awaken, we used the image of a garden, and spoke of selecting the plants we wish to raise.  At least Continue Reading →

At the very end of his talk about the awakening of the soul, Hazrat Inayat Khan makes a startling conclusion, like an unexpected musical flourish or coda that presents a Continue Reading →

At the end of his extensive lecture on the awakening of the soul, Hazrat Inayat Khan poses this question: how does one proceed in the awakening the soul?  Characteristically, he Continue Reading →

“What is intention?” Perhaps the question arose because we were making a pilgrimage to a site that many consider sacred, and in such a journey one may ask oneself, ‘What Continue Reading →

At the conclusion of his lecture on the maturity of the soul, posted here, Hazrat Inayat Khan makes this statement: And at the end of the journey he always finds that Continue Reading →

A post here about the garbs of beauty said that beauty “should be a reliable guide, like the thread of Ariadne, through life’s puzzling ways.  So long as we look Continue Reading →

If one opens at random one of the volumes of the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, it will not be long before one encounters the word ‘beauty,’ for that is Continue Reading →

A recent post of a text by Hazrat Inayat Khan on discipleship brought up the theme of the development of consideration, and in response to some questions, we looked more Continue Reading →

In a recent post on discipleship, Hazrat Inayat Khan says that the first step on the path is to learn consideration, and even declares that the “birth of consideration is Continue Reading →