“The deeper your prayers echo in your own consciousness, the more audible they are to God.”

  Some more great quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan: “The deeper your prayers echo in your own consciousness, the more audible they are to God.” Many people repeat prayers daily, or even several times a day, but without any depth in them. What use is that? Prayer can be powerful, or it can be empty. First, decide what to pray for, and then pray with depth, not with a hole in your spirit. Here’s another quote, & beautiful story, along these lines: “There is a story of a peasant girl who was passing through a farm while going to another … Continue reading

“God alone deserves all love, and the freedom of love is in giving it to God.”

  What a beautiful & true quote: “God alone deserves all love, and the freedom of love is in giving it to God.” By the always eloquent Hazrat Inayat Khan. Here are a few more from him: “The one thing to rely upon is God’s favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life’s purpose, and (in) Him is hidden the rest of your soul.” “Whom should one love, how should one … Continue reading

The heart must be empty in order to receive the knowledge of God.

  “The heart must be empty in order to receive the knowledge of God.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan “It is the receptivity of our heart and the passivity of our mind, it is the eagerness, the thirst and hunger after truth, it is the direction of our whole life to that Ideal from who all light and truth come, that alone can bring us truth and the knowledge of God.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan But then the question comes: how do we open our hearts and minds? Step by step, we require different things. Sometimes pain, sometimes hope, sometimes worldly … Continue reading