Sufism is experiential

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.