It is a patient pursuit to bring water from the depth of the ground; one has to deal with much mud in digging before one reaches the water of life. [ Read more … ]

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Self stands as a wall between humans and God. [ Read more … ]

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight, and it is the breaking of these clouds — in other words, purity of heart — that gives the capacity for the knowledge of God to rise. [ Read more … ]

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

We start our lives as teachers, and it is very hard for us to learn to become pupils. There are many whose only difficulty in life is that they are teachers already. What we have to learn is pupilship. There is but one Teacher, God. [ Read more … ]

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

People mistake when they begin to cultivate the heart by wanting to sow the seed themselves, instead of leaving the sowing to God. [ Read more … ]

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan