When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

The Quran explicitly opposes the killing of innocent people and the Prophet was always careful in doing that. If they had to fight a war, he was always on the side of peace as soon as it was possible to make peace because that's what the Quran says also.