Murshid on Harmony: Day One

As we contemplate this past year and consider our deepest desire, perhaps it might be summed up as a desire for “harmony.” Our teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan’s philosophy could possibly be distilled down to the importance of living a life in harmony, with ourselves, with our friends and neighbors, with nature. This is an universal aim.

Over seven days we will explore Murshid’s teachings on harmony, inviting you to help support our greater work by giving to the Inayati Order’s Fall Appeal for 2018. We hope to raise $35,000 by Sunday, December 23rd, and all who give a donation by this day will receive a free talk by Pir Zia, recently given at his Making One’s Own Nature gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Artwork by the Swedish abstract painter Hilma af Klint, now on the display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Ten Largest, Youth. Group IV, no. 4. 1907.

The Mysticism of Sound

If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others. I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling; and I have tried to interpret the same thing, with clear and simple words, to those who used to listen to my music. I played the vina until my heart turned into this very instrument; then I offered this instrument to the divine Musician, the only musician existing.
—Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inayati Order Fall Appeal 2018

Please help us reach our goal of raising $35,000 by Sunday, December 23rd. All who donate to the Inayati Order’s Fall Appeal 2018 by this date will receive a complimentary talk from Pir Zia’s Making One’s Own Nature event, December 1 & 2, 2018, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.www.inayatiorder.org/donate

Donations may also be sent to the Inayati Order, 112 E Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Please contact us with any questions at astana@inayatiorder.org or 518-794-7834. Thank you!

Murshid on Harmony: Day One