The Secret Of Sufism Is That It

When Prayer, Rituals And Ascetic Life Are Just A Means Of Self-indulgence, They Are Harmful Rather Than Beneficial. This Is Quite Obvious To People Nowadays, When It Is Widely Recognised That Fixations Are Not The Same As Valuable And Laudable Observances. One Should Not Pray If That Prayer Is Vanity; Rituals Are Wrong When They Provide Lower Satisfactions, Like Emotional Stimulus Instead Of Enlightenment; He Or She Should Not Be An Ascetic Who Is Only Enjoying It.

The Sufis Believe That They Can Experience Something More Complete.

If The Path Has Been Laid Down, Why The Successive Appearance Of Different Teachers? Why Would Anyone Reinvent The Wheel, If Everything Were As Cosy And Sequential As Primitive Longing So Easily Convinces Us?

Like The Bat, The Sufi Is Asleep To 'things Of The Day' - The Familiar Struggle For Existence Which The Ordinary Man Finds All-important - And Vigilant While Others Are Asleep. In Other Words, He Keeps Awake The Spiritual Attention Dormant In Others. That 'mankind Sleeps In A Nightmare Of Unfulfillment' Is A Commonplace Of Sufi Literature

When A Belief Becomes More Than An Instrument, You Are Lost. You Remain Lost Until You Learn What 'belief' Is Really For.