Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

If we can only know the joy of asking pardon even of our fellowman, when we realise we are at fault, however little it may be! And when we ask Continue Reading →

The following question and answer were recorded at the end of a talk in the home of Baronne d’Eichthal in Paris, in 1924. Q. : The regularity of the hour Continue Reading →

We conclude this teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan on the divine nature of the impulse, begun here and continued here. Now one may ask how sages and thinkers have distinguished Continue Reading →

We continue with Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teaching about the divine nature of impulse, begun here. The nature of every impulse is such that it goes through three stages and after Continue Reading →

The Source of Impulse The first question to be considered in reference to the subject of divine impulse is: where does every impulse come from? Every movement, every vibration, every Continue Reading →

The exercises which a mureed practises must be considered as a winding, the winding which keeps the mechanism of the clock going. And when one cannot continue the practices at Continue Reading →

Hazrat Inayat Khan used the term ‘sympathy’ in the very wide sense, of recognising common feeling with another.  ‘Antipathy’ its opposite, means a strong aversion, which can manifest in such Continue Reading →

Q. : Why do we receive this blessing of the grace of God? A. : Everything belonging to the earth costs us, more or less.  We purchase it.  And there Continue Reading →

In the Summer School of 1924 Hazrat Inayat Khan gave a lecture about life in the world and the spiritual path.  His concluding remarks are given below, together with some Continue Reading →

Often, the spiritual  path is understood to be the hard road of crushing that deadly monster, the ego; it is the slippery, many-armed ego that keeps us from knowing the Continue Reading →