The Essence of Sufism

Love is consciousness becoming aware of itself and if God's not consciousness then God really isn't anything. Dreaming other into existence is the prerequisite for love because you have to have an object of devotion or love has no currency. The real Sufis just laugh nothing tyrannizes their hearts what strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl - that's the thingyou know as we look out in this world people don't understand that they're the pearl, he says.

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