Walk With Us Through Places That Shape the Spirit

2Â December 2025 Sharing Sacred Places Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00 â 4:15 PM EST / 9:00 â 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 […]
Across the Wind-Swept Steppe â Help Us Carry the Breath of the Path Forward

âMy life speeds towards Thee as the blowing of the wind.â â 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 â a wide and boundless plain, home to silence, […]
The Zephyr, November 2025

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 […]
Into the Deep â Help Us Carry the Oceanâs Teaching Forward

How many a rain of largesse hath rained, so that the sea was made thereby to scatter pearls! â RÅ«mÄ«â 18 November 2025 Dear Friends, The mystics have long spoken of the soul as an ocean â vast, unfathomable, and brimming with secrets. Its surface may shimmer with light or boil with storm, but its depths […]
News from the Caravan – November 2025

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 […]
Where the Waters Flow â Help Us Carry the Riverâs Wisdom Forward

âThe sacred river is the sympathy coming out of our own heartâ â 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 […]
In the Fire and the Silence â Help Us Carry the Desert’s Teaching Forward

âAs fire when not kindled gives only smoke, but when kindled, the illuminating flame springs forth, so it is with love.â â 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 […]
Toward the Summit Within â Help Us Uphold the Mountain of the Heart

28 October 2025 Dear Friends, There is a mountain that cannot be seen by the eyes of the world, but only by the gaze of the soul. Beyond the horizon of perception, rising through the veils of imagination and spiritual insight, there stands a mountain unlike any other â Qaf, the legendary mountain of mystics […]
The Zephyr, October 2025

15 October 2025 Dear Community, And therefore upon God let them that trust put all their trust. â Qurâan, Chapter âAbraham,â verse 12 In times of difficulty, who can you trust? The image above was taken by my wife, Eva, in March 2009 during the early morning hours when she traveled to the city of Lira […]
The Hidden Light Within the Cave ðŠ

âGo within the cave of your heart; it is there that the Friend awaits.â â attributed to Hazrat Ali 14 October 2025 Dear Friends, The path inward, toward the Heart of hearts, has often been likened to a descent â not into darkness as absence, but into a deeper seeing. Among the most enduring symbols […]