Category: Letters to mureeds

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 →

In a recent post, the theme was the application of Sufi teachings to the innumerable problems we face in life, and the post quoted Hazrat Inayat Khan referring to the Continue Reading →

Surely everyone is familiar with this piece of wisdom: “A Sufi lives in the world, but is not of the world.” Or, as Murshid Hidayat might have said, “The Sufi Continue Reading →

In the recently posted tale about the elderly rabbi approaching the end of his days on earth, there was one question that he feared: Zusya, why weren’t you Zusya?  It Continue Reading →

In the recently posted text on the nature of renunciation, Hazrat Inayat Khan says, “Love is a blessing, but it turns into a curse in attachment; admiration is a blessing, Continue Reading →

The poems by Lalleshwari, recently posted here, show two related conditions on the spiritual path.  One is the stage of the travel-worn seeker who has not yet arrived, and who, Continue Reading →

A recent post offered two short texts from Hazrat Inayat Khan on the subject of sympathy, a quality that we appreciate in others when it is directed towards us, but Continue Reading →