“The only condition of life is making one’s own nature.”

Real spirituality is living a life of fullness, with deep insight into all that comes one’s way.

                                                                                                 Hazrat Inayat Khan

Since December 7th 2021 there have been friends, family, and acquaintances who have been praying and arranging prayers for me around the world. I am blessed. 

I believe in a God of love and compassion. My husband calls me a humanist. When we are traveling we always try to visit churches, temples or mosques, places of worship if we are allowed. That feeling of serenity touches my soul. 

That same feeling overwhelms me when I am in nature. A walk in the forest, staring out at sea or over a meadow all give me a sense of unity with nature and a feeling of transcendence. God is everywhere. I feel the most serenity when I am on my knees in nature. On a forest floor, on a beach, in grass. The closest to the ground. I do not need a building to express my spirituality.  Nature is the largest space of worship.

Music or specific sounds and images help me transcend and feel a part of something larger than me.

My spiritual roots

I was born a Muslim and brought up with a strong feeling of equality and a strong need to follow my own path. In Guyana, where I grew up, we celebrated each other’s religious holidays, attended each other’s religious services. I have never judged a person because of colour or creed.

I have always been drawn to the Sufi teachings. In my father’s the books that interested me as a child and still do were:
Thinkers of the east – by Idries Shah
Books with the teachings of Inayat Khan
Now I realise that the sufi seed – the path of love – was planted there.
My father a practicing muslim encouraged me to read the Mahabarahta and discuss it with him, sent me to a Catholic High School where we celebrated all religions, bought me comic books depicting Hindu Myths and because he relished the symbolics and morale of the stories.
Little did he know that he had put me on a path of stroytelling and of  love which is a path navigated from the heart and the soul. And I now realise that he in his beliefs and deeds was a Sufi.

Now on this path and with this limited time I am going to deepen my knowledge of  Universal Sufism as taught by Hazrat Inayat Khan to see if this ressonates with my soul. Thank you Papa.

Real spirituality is living a life of fullness, with deep insight into all that comes one’s way. Spirituality means raising one’s consciousness from human to divine, by expanding the radius of the heart and by raising the consciousness experienced by the soul. Spirituality is, in itself, the forgetting of the self, while at the same time appreciating all, comprehending all, surmounting all and inspiring all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

Rumi.