The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.