Reflections V - I - 23

Aspects of Sufi Viewpoints

by Hidayat I. Khan - see book 'Geistige Freiheit' - click here

23. If we understand intuition as being an unconscious reaction to impressions received, we could see inspiration as being a grouping of a multitude of intuitions, merging together in an intelligible range of thoughts, transcribed in various types of expressions, such as literature, music and numberless other forms of creative arts. The difference between intuition and inspiration lies in the fact that intuition comes like a message for no apparent reason, whereas inspiration is the result of a connection between the indescribable source and the ability of the talented who are able to describe it.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, in his seventeen years of work in the West (from 1910 until 1927) has travelled extensely, in Europe, in Russia and the United States, and he has left us a widespread wisdom which covers all aspects of human life on this earth.

Here the reflections throw their light upon a certain aspect, and, dear friends, if you wish to follow them every day, you will certainly discover a golden thread which links one sentence to the other; and there might appear, before your inner perception, something which every individual, in his or her own way, could discover something like 'the map of my own life'...

Heartily

Puran