Category: Letters to mureeds

Hazrat Inayat Khan often equates the effort to awaken love in the heart to the labour of digging a well; one example appears in this post.  As the world is Continue Reading →

This recent post of wisdom from the Hasidic tradition paints an image of a father who disguises himself in order to frighten his son; when the son sees through the Continue Reading →

In a recent post in the series ‘The Art of Personality,’ Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks about the importance of dignity.  It is a quality that is difficult to describe, for Continue Reading →

At the conclusion of the recent post in the series ‘The Art of Personality’, on the subject of vanity, Hazrat Inayat Khan makes reference to ‘the plant of desires.’  He Continue Reading →

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 →