In true Sufi tradition, Hazrat Inayat Khan used teaching stories as a means of making his spiritual and psychological insights more accessible and memorable for his disciples. One hundred seventy of these lively narratives have been gathered from both published and unpublished material, and are presented here in a thoroughly readable collection which Library Journal hailed a `a find.` The first section of Tales is drawn from dervish parables, fables, legends of ancient gods, kings and heroes, stories of prophets, sinners and saints. The second portion contains experiences and anecdotes of Inayat Khan`s own life and travels, from youthful journeys among the palaces and shrines of turn-of-the-century India, to encounters with the great and the humble all over the world. There was in India a man called Rama Muti. He could lift elephants and stop motorcars running at full speed. When this man, who was not extraordinary in build, was asked where he got this gigantic strength -- for he looked like an ordinary human being, not like a monster -- he said, `you know, and yet you do not know. The secret lies in the breath, which is all power.`