Theory & Experience in Sufism
Posted in Of Core Knowing, Retreat, The Path on Jul 4th, 2009
Sufis never try to make experience fit theory. Instead, let theory fall around the shoulders of your experience like a well-fitted coat.
One’s experience in mysticism is direct. It belongs to the mystic. Reading the words of other Sufis is a support, a confirmation.
It is up to practitioners to reflect on their Inner Communion, decipher, and [...]