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# The Deeper Side of Life: Inayat Khan's Powerful Lesson
- URL: https://sufimohamed.com/the-deeper-side-of-life/
- Published: 2026-02-10T11:22:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-10T11:22:35.000Z
- Description: Life always gives an opportunity of thinking, however busy we may be. Wisdom is the same in all ages.
- Author: Sufi Mohamed
- Tags: Spirituality

*This piece presents teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the Indian musician and Sufi teacher who brought Sufism to the West. His lectures on this theme are collected in* The Alchemy of Happiness*, volume 6 of* The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan *(Inayat Khan, 2015).*

## The deeper side of life

Those who have studied life and thought long enough about the subject have arrived at the same point as the thinkers who lives as much as eight hundred years ago.

> Wisdom is the same in all ages.

In order to realise life it is not necessary for us to follow religion. It is not necessary for us to be great or good, pious or spiritual.

The first and most necessary thing is to become observant. We should look at life more keenly than we do instead of living superficially. It would cost us nothing.

> Life always gives an opportunity of thinking, however busy we may be.

We can meditate upon life in the midst of life if only we want to.

What happens is that a man begins his life by action and the more active he becomes, the less he thinks. His action becomes his thought.

> The ideal life at least is to try to live up to one's ideal.

The deeper we look into life, the more it unfolds itself, allowing us to see more keenly

Life is revealing.

## References

Inayat Khan, H. (2015). *The Sufi message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Vol. 6\. The alchemy of happiness*. Motilal Banarsidass.

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