While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.
I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow. My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in...
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Anonymous
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
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Idries Shah
One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...
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Idries Shah
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
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Idries Shah
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While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.
[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.
Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships.
