“[…] 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 […]
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 – Qaf, the legendary mountain of mystics […]
