June 27, 2026

Even the sorrow, which seems so dark, is a light in disguise.

Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote during the early twentieth century, a period when he had left his homeland of India to bring Sufi teachings to the West, living far from his family and the world he had known. He lost his beloved wife, Ora Ray Baker, in 1916, just years into their marriage and shortly after the birth of their children. This quote comes from a man who knew grief personally, not just philosophically, and who still insisted that suffering carries something useful inside it. The idea speaks to loss today because it does not ask you to feel better, only to stay curious about what the hard thing might be teaching you.