JP
jpsalik.bsky.social
JP
@jpsalik.bsky.social
Liberty, love, harmony and beauty. Love science, philosophy and spirituality. Have hope and faith in universal intelligence. Cornell graduate, hospitality career, large family with many daughters and grandchildren. Liberté.
#Resist
#Sufism
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

170. No one is a mystic who claims to be one, because a mystic has removed all barriers between himself and others, avoiding distinctions and differences, while contemplating all things from the

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 14, 2025

HE WHO KEEPS NO SECRETS HAS NO DEPTH IN HIS HEART.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
The tongue brings all life to the surface and keeps life on the surface.
2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to investigate Senator Mark Kelly. This is what the National Institute of Military Justice has to say...
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

169. Mysticism is neither faith nor belief nor dogma nor principle. Mysticism is a divine impulse shining from within, and can only be understood by discovering that the more one is conscious of its secret

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
4/that one picture does not inspire and another does inspire the witness. Beauty in form, be it in nature or from the hands of man, is always compelling and uplifting.

-------------

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Love produces harmony and harmony
5/
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 13, 2025

LOVE DEVELOPS INTO HARMONY, AND OF HARMONY IS BORN BEAUTY.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
If there were an opposite condition to Love, it would not be hate
2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

168. One’s greatness or smallness depends upon the motive and not always upon conditions and environment, although these can also be creative of a motive. A person with a noble motive is visibly

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 12

DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH FEAR; AND FEAR NOT WHATEVER YOU DO. --Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

Fear is the time for inaction, for sedation, for meditation. This is

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

167. That which is convincing in a thought is the will-power behind it, and the most powerful of all convictions is that of a feeling heart. Knowing this, one realizes that all thoughts which the mind projects

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 11, 2025

WHEN THE ARTIST LOSES HIMSELF IN HIS ART, THEN THE ART COMES TO LIFE.- -Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

By this means God created the world, and

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

166. Will-power is the hidden presence of the Divine within, although this power might have the appearance of belonging to the self. That is why the more one realizes its real source, the more powerful does

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
8/Ghazali has said in his Alchemy of Happiness that the spiritual path is like shooting an arrow into the dark. ... Whoever sets out on this path is therefore in constant warfare. He has to encounter opposition from his relatives, from his friends an acquaintances; he gets into trouble with 9/
December 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 10, 2025

AS THE ROSE BLOOMS AMIDST THORNS, SO GREAT SOULS SHINE OUT THROUGH ALL OPPOSITION. --Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

There are two attitudes to take in the
2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

165. Success or failure are dependent upon our duties accomplished or neglected, whereby we roll smoothly forward or lose contact with the rails of both duty and fate.

2/

#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 9, 2025

THE SEEMING DEATH OF THE BODY IS THE REAL BIRTH OF THE SOUL.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

By death of the body is meant dissolution,

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

164. The proportion of fate and free will can be modulated, inasmuch as one is given a choice to either surrender to circumstances or to modify them. Our life is constantly rolling onwards on the tracks of

2/
#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 8, 2025

WISDOM IS ATTAINED IN SOLITUDE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

Wisdom is attained when the body is in solitude, which means that when the body is

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

163. Belief can take two forms, the one having the tendency of running water, flowing from one conception to another, and the other having the tendency of frozen water, which cannot be modified. In this latter

2/
#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 7, 2025

LEARN TO LIVE A TRUE LIFE AND YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

Trueness comes from the attunement of heart, which is possible when

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

162. The habit of evaluation is an attitude which greatly conditions our happiness or unhappiness in all relationships with others. As one evolves spiritually one seems to rise above a natural tendency of

2/
#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 6, 2025

TO DENY THE CHANGEABLENESS OF LIFE IS LIKE FANCYING A MOTIONLESS SEA, WHICH CAN ONLY EXIST IN ONE'S IMAGINATION.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

2/
#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

161. The formation of opinions is only one facet of our reasoning faculty, a facet that derives from an uncontrolled tendency to judge, especially seen when people of different levels of evolution express their

2/
#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Bowl of Saki for December 5, 2025

ENVIABLE IS THE ONE WHO LOVETH AND ASKETH NO RETURN.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

It is only heart which can heal heart. When heart depends upon other

2/

#Sufism
#HazratInayatKhan
#MurshidSam
#SufiRuhaniat
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

160. The conscience is not only a record of one’s own experiences and actions, but it is also heard as a living voice within the heart, which is peaceful or unrestful according to circumstances which we ourselves

2/
#Sufism
#HidayatInayatKhan
#InnerTeachings
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
2/Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

Wise control of breath keeps the mind from lingering upon destructive thought. All destruction in the world is not evil, for sometimes it is necessary for the sake of all mankind or for the sake of earth itself. That is why there 3/
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM