James Fadiman,Robert Frager

Essential Sufism

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  • endlessemotionshas quoted6 years ago
    He told them to smile at others, to do their best to make other people feel cared for.
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    Love is a continually expanding capacity that culminates in certainty, in the recognition that there is nothing in this world or in the next that is not both loved and loving.
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    Life does not end with death. Life in this world is like a dream, and our true life starts in the next world.
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    Sufis maintain that you don’t look for God in Mecca or Jerusalem but in your heart. The paradox with which Sufis struggle is that God is very close, but humanity is far from God. Faith brings the seeker closer.
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    Sufism proposes that all the great religious and spiritual teachers were sent by one God. They were all true teachers, and what they taught was true.
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    What are you in yourself and where did you come from? Where are you going and for what purpose are you tarrying here awhile? In what does your real happiness and misery consist?”
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    not only love but also self-knowledge leads to knowledge of God.
  • endlessemotionshas quoted6 years ago
    want God now—moment by moment, day by day, in this very life. And they are willing to undergo the disciplines that make that possible.
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