Sufism travels into the realm of story, inspired analogy and esoteric understanding of the Qur'an, so that the Sufi may ultimately become the Essence.

To think about our bodies as horses to be ridden or even temples to be occupied, is to create a duality between our thinking and our body. It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty.

A cadaver does not yield the secret to the human experience.

The Secret of a Human Being is Allah. The Secret of Allah is the Human Being.

The rejection of the Shadow is one of the greatest failings of patriarchal religion. Life and Death are realities to our psyche. They are a package deal. Christianity tries to paint the Devil/Evil/Death as the enemy of God/Goddess/Life. Rather than giving the Devil his due, Christianity has created a bizarre and distorted image of the Shadow.

The aforementioned philosopher and Sûfî, ibn al-Arabî, saw a young girl in Makkah surround by light and realized that, for him, she was an incarnation of the divine Sophia.

Lady Fatima was chosen from all women to be the Mother source of Muhammad's lineage, the core of the generation of Muhammad. Through her, the progeny of the Prophet multiplies - through a woman.

Oh, our brothers and sisters of the Way, Sufism is the most delicate and dangerous of paths, for the dervish dares to storm the gates of heaven itself.

Well, first off. The Divine is obvious. One of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah is Az-Zhahir, The Obvious, the Conspicuous and the Clear. It's not as if you have to go anywhere or do anything to find the Divine. Do you think the Divine would play hide-and-go-seek with you?