The Inner Source Digest

EMRE’s Conversations: 1 Notes from the conversation which were recorded in 01.12.1956: Q.- In books which we read, a beginning of life is being assigned. Seeds are coming from the sky to our planet. By means of them, first life occurs in the marshes. Then the evolution in animals begin […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 2 Notes saved during the conversation in 9.3.1957. Q. – The remarks like “fate can not be changed” tells that to obey the fate is necessary, although some remarks give importance to the will, which one is true? Emre– Both of them means. We can’t find if we […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 3July 1957 We are offering to our worthy readers a conversation of Emre with a priest.* Sait Doğan who is a student in Faculty of Economy requested to publish this conversation in the digest named “Inner Source”. However Emre had not allow to publish this conversation till now.  […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 4Agust 1957 (a conversation which is captured at 25.1.957): Q.- It is said that beside the goal itself, to be on the same way with goal also makes the people happy. We can not feel this too. Emre – The one who knows his/her trouble actually finds the […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 5September 1957 (Continuing from the previous issue) M.B.- One of the Sheiks is saying that ; “My students must not read the books other than mine “. Emre – Knowledge belongs to God, the knowledge of God surrounds just like God. I mean everybody has the the right […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 6October 1957 (Continued from the previous issue) Q.- I’m in love with God, but I don’t know the degree of it. Emre – Because love has not progressed yet. Q.- What can I do in order to progress love? Emre – Think, contemplate. Q. – What do I […]

EMRE’s Conversations: 7November 1957 (Notes saved from a conversation at 21.11.1956 ) Emre – A person can only be killed with contemplation. When contemplation shows us our helplessness and nothingness, we hand in our being, our self to our Master (owner). Then, this is the end of sin. We can’t […]

December 1957EMRE’s Conversations: 9 (Notes saved from a conversation at 29.11.1957) Q. – In one of the Inner Source Digests, you have a conversation with a priest. In this conversation you hadn’t introduce yourself to the priest directly, instead you made Mr. Celal enter before you. Why did you intend […]

December 1958EMRE’s Conversations: 10 Emre – The mountains which are mentioned in Bible and Koran are not the same mountains which are formed from earth and stone. They are actually formed by the divine light and they are similar to the human. Each Word has an inner meaning. Therefore this […]

January 1954EMRE’s Conversations: 11  (The conversation which is saved at 01.25.1954) Emre – In this path there comes a time in which there remains no such thing as (self) of human.  But not every mind can walk in this path. The mind which is connected to the world, only thinks […]

March 1958Issue: 12EMRE’s Conversations: 12 The notes which can be saved from Emre’s conversation at 10.03.1956 and 10.10.1957 upon the request of telling the memories during his asceticism experience: Emre – I was 21 years old working at depot of Bozantı – Halep – Nuseybin and extention railways. Asceticizm is […]

April 1958Issue: 13EMRE’s Conversations: 13 (Notes from the conversation at 26.01.1954:) Emre – Everyone gets stuck on seeing his/her essence. The one who hears, starts to fall in trouble. If he/she doesn’t hear, what can an aidless do? The end of this matter is to love “The One” by “someone”. […]

May 1958Issue: 14EMRE’s Conversations: 14 (Notes saved from the conversation at 4.05.1957) Q.- In Koran, it has been said that there would be a reciprocity for both evil and charity even in measure of mithqal (4.8gr) . How could they be measured? Emre – Everyone has its own meter in […]

June 1958Issue: 15EMRE’s Conversations: 15 (Notes saved from the conversations at 10.11.1956): Q. – What does Ego mean?             Emre – Ego can be described like this: First of all the flower of a fruiter arises before its leaves. The flower spreads a light smell. When we taste, it has […]

July 1958Issue: 16EMRE’s Conversations: 16 (Notes from a conversation in the garden of Mr. Ahmet Çempel at 13.10.1957) Emre – Trying to learn sufism from the book is something like to look at the picture of the beloved. Does the one in picture love you? You can’t understand. Although this […]

July 1959Issue: 17EMRE’s Conversations: 17 (Notes which are saved from a conversation at 20.12.1958) Q. – Our questions would be unsatisfactory; because we are unfamiliar with this subject. The questions which will be asked from the ones who are unaware of this knowledge will be messy, not in a systematic […]

April 1959Issue: 18EMRE’s Conversations: 18 (Notes that can be saved from the conversation at 31.5.1958)  Q.- In the Inner Source Digest you have been saying that the healing of illnesses will be possible by means of stars in recent future. Will it be through the light? Emre – Yes. The […]

May 1959Issue: 19EMRE’s Conversations: 19 (This conversation has happened in İstanbul at 25.3.1959. The questioner is a sheikh with the name Father Şevket with long, black hair and moustache. His job is hairdressing. ) Q- I am looking for a fisherman.  Emre – If we can’t find a fisherman, we […]

September 1959Issue: 20EMRE’s Conversations: 20 EMRE’s Conversations: 20             (We need to apologize from our venerable readers because of the interruption of the conversation from half of it by mistake. Because of this, we will try to fix the fault by repeating the last part of the conversation.)             Q. […]

November 1959Issue: 21EMRE’s Conversations: 21 EMRE’s Conversations: 21  (continued from the last issue)             Q. – While there is “I’ve learned”, this goes on.             Emre – What can we say even if The Prophet Mohammed had been said “I couldn’t know”. How can a knower say “I know”? The […]