The Sufis Believe That They Can Experience

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

The More Wakeful A Man Is To The Things Which Surround Him, The More Asleep Is He, And His Waking Is Worse Than His Sleep.

The Chicken Had His Wish, And Was Magically Transformed Into A Fox. Then He Found That He Could Not Digest Grain.

Please, Not Again What You Studied, How Long You Spent At It, How Many Books You Wrote, What People Thought Of You - But: What Did You Learn?

To Be Obsessed By The Idea Of Freedom, For Instance, Is Itself A Form Of Slavery. Such People Are In The Chains Of The Hope Of Freedom, And Are Therefore Able To Do Little Else Than Struggle With Them.