Magazines 
HeartBeat Current Issue, Summer 2010 (click to read it)
On Nature, by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan.................................................................4
Commentary on The Inner Life, by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis ...............................................4
From the Editor, by Kyra Epstein.....................................................................................5
Ziraat: A Slender Thread, by Vakil Forest Shomer...............................................................5
Cosmology, by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan....................................................................................6
Nature’s Ensouling Intelligence: On God, Nature, and the Decision to Choose Love,
by Dorothy MacLean......................................................................................................8
Our Loving Relationship with Nature, by Carol Sill (Sufia).....................................................10
Attuning to the Wisdom of Nature: Sacred Sites, Stone Circles, Crop Circles
and Your Own Backyard, by Asha Lela.............................................................................11
Nature: Our Teacher, Our Lover, by Saladin Pelfrey...........................................................12
Nature Mysticism, by Aziza Riely-Twaddle..........................................................................13
Fundament Wonder: A Brief, Imagined Visit from the Deep, Dark, and Productive,
by Michael J. Furniss......................................................................................................13
From the Nature Meditations of Hazrat Inayat Khan............................................................20
Sufi Ruhaniat International Financial Report 2009................................................................21
Ruhaniat Publications......................................................................................................22
HeartBeat Summer 2009 (click to read it)
On Love, Sufi Thought Seven by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan...................................................... 4
From Bestowing of Blessing—on love by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis ....................................................... 5
Excerpts from “The Bowl of Saki” by HIK with commentaries by Murshid Sam.................................. 6
Where Adam and Eve Made Love by Saadi Shakur Chishti..................................................................... 9
Love, Inward and Outward by multiple contributors.............................................................................. 11
Iran and The Feather of the Simorgh by Elias Amidon........................................................................... 15
Two poems: Initiation; Guide by Mirabai Wolf Willow........................................................................... 18
Forty Years with Jaman—Love on the Path of Commerce by Najat Roberts....................................... 19
The Holiest Shrine in Iran is in Mashad by Mansur Johnson................................................................. 21
The Inayati Family: Just How Big Are We? By Aslan Scott Sattler....................................................... 26
Morning Prayer by Mary Flowers............................................................................................................... 31
Remembrance by Khushi Tanveer............................................................................................................... 32
Sufi Ruhaniat International Financial Report 2008 by Boudewijn Boom............................................... 34
Sufi Ruhaniat International Board of Trustees Meeting........................................................................ 36
Theme for Winter 2009/2010 Issue.......................................................................................................... 39
Available Ruhaniat Publications.............................................................................................................. 40
Make a Donation of $1001, Support the Ruhaniat................................................................................. 41
HeartBeat Winter 2008-2009 (Click to read it)
Contents
Letter from our Pir..........................................................................................................................................4
Quotes from the Gathekas on Practice
by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan.....................................................................................................5
Practice by Murshid Khabir Kitz.......................................................................................................................8
The Elements With—a poem by Jemila Spain...............................................................................................10
Making Friends with a Sitting Practice by Bodhi Be...................................................................................12
2009 Ruhaniat Jamiat Ahm Invitation.........................................................................................................14
The Value of Practices by Aatoon Nina Massey...........................................................................................15
Who Practices? by Munir Reynolds...............................................................................................................17
Dying as Spiritual Practice by Noor-un-Nisa Walsh....................................................................................21
If on Earth there be a Paradise of Bliss, This is It! by Quan Yin Lynne Williams....................................24
The Practice and Culture of Friendship by Rabia Cronin..........................................................................32
Sufi Ruhaniat International Board of Trustees Emergency Meeting......................................................34
Update Your Albertson’s Card to Continue Donating!............................................................................36
Theme for Summer 2009 Issue.....................................................................................................................36
Available Ruhaniat Publications.................................................................................................................37
OFFER: Make a Donation, Support the Ruhaniat, Receive an Original Painting of HIK...................38