https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/All about the Sufi Path.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951882Gayan 376 - Chala 55 - You must never joke with a fool; if you throw a flower at him. he will throw back a stone. A mystic removes the barrier that stands between himself and another person by trying to look at life, not only from his own point of view, but also from the point of view of another....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951639Gayan #352 - Chala #31 - When the personality of an artist is absorbed in his art, it becomes art itself. … Mental magnetism, which depends on the power and harmony of thought. This can be obtained by being fully absorbed in beautiful and harmonious thoughts, and by suppressing all irritable...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951609Gayan #353 - Chala # 32 - Vanity is a mask over the hidden object that attracts every soul. Always consider that this is the one thing that you will meet on this path, and the one enemy you will avoid: vanity. You must be on your guard against it from which ever side it comes. It comes so swiftly...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951546CS-0586 - “Verily, the soul has no birth, no death, no beginning, no end. Sin cannot touch it, nor can virtue exalt it; it has always been and always will be, and all else is its cover like a globe over the light.” “The soul has no birth, no death, no beginning, no end. Sin cannot touch it, nor...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951514Gayan 394 - Chala 73 - When a desire becomes a steady thought, its success is assured. And now, I would like to explain what I mean by desire. It is a weaker, or primitive state of the wish. When an idea, a thought is not yet made clear in one's own mind, that one's own mind has not taken a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951355CS-0425 - “All things in their beginning must be guarded from the sweeping winds of destruction, as the young plant must first be nurtured in a glasshouse.” The mind is a magic shell in which a design is made by the imagination, and the same imagination is materialized on the surface. And then...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951297GAYAN 201 - BOULA -159 – The heart of man is a temple; when its door is closed to man, it is also closed to God. God cannot be found in temples, for God is Love; and love does not live in temples, but in the heart of man, which is the temple of God. The true religion would be to recognize it so...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951257GAYAN 196 - BOULA -155 – Not until sobriety comes after the intoxication of life does man begin to wonder. The first thing that a seeker after truth must realize, is the purpose of life. No sooner does a soul begin to feel sober from the intoxication of life, than the first thing it asks itself...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951207CS-0492 - “To fall down does not break me or discourage me; it only enables me to rise to a still higher sphere of life.” “To a mystic, to fall means to fall beneath his own ideal; and to rise means to climb constantly towards his own ideal. If anything he thinks or does or says brings him lower...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/sufism101/951156Gayan 385 - Chala 64 - Matter is a state of spirit. One often wonders to what extent the spirit has power over matter; and the answer is that, as matter is the outcome of spirit, spirit has all power over matter… In the present age a person thinks that spirit is born of matter. Through biological...