Quote from Beauty and Light

Beauty and Light: Mystical Discourses of a Contemporary Female Sufi Master

by Cemalnur Sargut

Fons Vitae, Louisville, Kentucky, 2017          215 pages

 To abandon existence is to abandon your boastful existence.This is the hardest part; to stop saying “I” all the time, an oft-repeated exercise when we explain our actions and supposed accomplishments. But the real question is, “What do we really achieve on our own?” We are mere faucets. If God does not turn on the faucet, what words can ever flow from us? . . . What power do we really have? . . . That is why abandoning existence is a high station.

. . . After you abandon all of these, there is nothing left to abandon. Everywhere becomes God. Then a person abandons abandonment. That is to say, he starts to see God in everything . . . Everything you do will carry meaning and affect others . . . This is the station of journeying with God, being with God in everything, in unity. It is being one with, or together with, God.

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