If you have any news to share about births and deaths, or if you have written a book or composed a piece of music you think our community would be interested in, please send it to zephyr@inayatiyya.org with the subject heading “News of the Caravan.” Photos are welcome. A Farmer’s Thoughts – The Gift of […]
“[…] every rock is longing for the day when it will burst out as a volcano, and when all that is valuable in it will come out” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 16 December 2025 Dear Friends, There are mountains that do not rest. Mountains that carry their own heartbeat, hidden beneath layers of stone. These are […]
“Breath, to a Sufi, is a bridge between himself and God; it is a rope for him, hanging down to earth, attached to the heavens.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 9 December 2025 Dear Friends, If the mountaintop is the symbol of arrival, then the valley is the place of preparation. It is in the valley that […]
2 December 2025 Sharing Sacred Places Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00 – 4:15 PM EST / 9:00 – 10:15 PM CET Come along for the journey! As a special gift for everyone who has donated to the Inayatiyya in 2025, we invite you to an online gathering on the theme of Sharing Sacred Places. This […]
“My life speeds towards Thee as the blowing of the wind.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 25 November 2025 Dear Friends, There is a landscape so vast, so open, that it seems the sky itself has come down to dwell upon the earth. This is the steppe – a wide and boundless plain, home to silence, […]
19 November 2025 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope these lines find you well. It was a pleasure being with some of you at the recent concluding session of Inner History. Since not everyone was able to attend (albeit the recordings are available here), I thought I would use the opportunity of this letter […]
How many a rain of largesse hath rained, so that the sea was made thereby to scatter pearls! – Rūmī’ 18 November 2025 Dear Friends, The mystics have long spoken of the soul as an ocean – vast, unfathomable, and brimming with secrets. Its surface may shimmer with light or boil with storm, but its depths […]
If you have any news to share about births and deaths, or if you have written a book or composed a piece of music you think our community would be interested in, please send it to zephyr@inayatiyya.org with the subject heading “News of the Caravan.” Photos are welcome. Inspiring Work by Avalon Gallien Many years […]
“The sacred river is the sympathy coming out of our own heart” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 11 November 2025 Dear Friends, There is an old Sufi story about a stream that, after descending from the mountains and crossing valleys and meadows, reaches the edge of a vast desert. There, the stream hesitates. How will it […]
“As fire when not kindled gives only smoke, but when kindled, the illuminating flame springs forth, so it is with love.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan 4 November 2025 Dear Friends, Across spiritual traditions, there is one place to which seekers have always fled, or been led: the desert. The desert is not silent. It speaks […]
