Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Some thoughts recently posted about the horizontal and the vertical stimulated an interesting comment (following the Spanish version of the post) pointing to a connection with the practice of the external zikar, Continue Reading →

In the prayer of the Christian Church there is a sentence: ‘Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.’ This gives a great key to metaphysics. It Continue Reading →

The following text by Hazrat Inayat Khan was given as a ‘Gatheka’ (the word means the singing of a sacred song) to offer inquirers some basic orientation as to what Sufism Continue Reading →

The following was spoken by Hazrat Inayat Khan to a small group of mureeds in 1926, shortly before the end of the Summer School in Sureness, France.  The mureeds, of course, Continue Reading →

While meeting with a small group of students, Hazrat Inayat Khan was asked if it was advisable for a mureed to study  and to read books. I would say that Continue Reading →

In a recent post, Hazrat Inayat Khan spoke about not troubling oneself over the faults of others.  Just as it is today, mureeds of the time asked questions, trying to Continue Reading →

If our way will not be soft, then whose way will be soft? You cannot expect all the people in the world to have the same opinion. You will always Continue Reading →

The further you go on the spiritual path, the more secrecy you must have. Without having secrecy, you can stand nowhere. And for many people, it is easy to laugh Continue Reading →

When one is developing on the spiritual path, what must be remembered most is to let everyone else go on his own path. The ones who tread the spiritual path must Continue Reading →

A lecture by Hazrat Inayat Khan on the Sufi point of view was posted here recently.  Following the lecture, there was an exchange of questions and answers, some of which Continue Reading →