Category: Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

The principal thing in the esoteric knowledge is to distinguish between reality and individuality. What a person knows of himself is individuality, what he is generally ignorant of, is reality. Continue Reading →

  Dear friends, can simple phenomena be the means of making people believe in God? If that was the thing, all the great prophets and masters would have worked in Continue Reading →

The difficulty in the spiritual path is always what comes from ourselves. Man does not like to be a pupil, he likes to be a teacher. If man only knew Continue Reading →

Concentrations are of different kinds, and their difference is caused by the difference of the purpose. There is a concentration on an object or a person or on an affair, Continue Reading →

March 20th, 1926 You have perhaps heard in stories or read in books that people in the East, especially fakirs and dervishes, are fasting many and many days or making different Continue Reading →

Amsterdam Jan 11th  1924 Man seems to have lost at this time a communication with himself by the tremendous responsibilities of everyday life. The Sufi Order by its initiation helps one to Continue Reading →

January 3, 1924 Chez Mlle Graeffe Brussels, Belgium I wish tell you of my conversation with a man yesterday, a man who was once a great believer, a Frenchman. And Continue Reading →

There is a well-known saying in Hindustani, “If the attitude is solid the path becomes easy”. This is the literal translation; a better translation, or interpretation, will be, “A right Continue Reading →

Keep burning the fire I have lighted. It may seem very small to you, but one tiny flame, if kept burning, can be the means of illuminating a whole city, Continue Reading →

The Symbol of the Dove The bird represents the wayfarer of the sky, and at the same time it represents a being who belongs to the earth and is capable Continue Reading →