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The Garden of Truth

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Not everyone wants to awaken from that daydreaming we call ordinary life, — location: 188 ^ref-60758

But if we are honest with ourselves, we realize that even the concept of matter or corporeality is contained in our consciousness and that therefore when we ask ourselves who we are, we are acting as conscious beings and have to begin with our consciousness. If we are intellectually awake, we realize that we cannot reduce consciousness to that which is itself contained in our consciousness. — location: 207 ^ref-1777

we have an imaginative faculty able to create images, and most of the time ordinary people live in the lower reaches of that world of imaginal forms. — location: 235 ^ref-31590

excessive cerebral activity can distract our consciousness from the center of our being. — location: 253 ^ref-63846

in order to reach the Truth one has to “tear the veil of thinking.” — location: 255 ^ref-43878

the Sufi then returns to the lower levels of existence, which are again seen as parts of his or her identity but not as they were before. Rather, they are transformed so that each at its own level reflects something of that supernal Reality, which determines our ultimate identity. — location: 278 ^ref-8103

As for the emotions, rather than being negative and dispersing one’s spiritual energies, they become completely transformed into positive energies dominated by love, charity, empathy, and so forth and controlled by virtues, — location: 285 ^ref-61217

the body becomes an outward source of barakah, or grace, in the case of those men and women who have come to realize who they really are. — location: 296 ^ref-15391

all things ultimately belong to God and that in ourselves we are nothing but the poor — location: 329 ^ref-28829

Followers of the Path are expected to be always grateful to God and to praise Him no matter what their circumstances. — location: 389 ^ref-30011