| Much of Sufism seems to be focused on trying to raise up that higher self, the ecstatic experience in which you are in union with God. |
| The central aim of Sufism, the self-extinction in the merger with God, is obviously borrowed from Buddhist and Vedantic sources. |
| Her later work, both poetry and visual art, reflects her growing interest in mysticism, especially Sufism. |
| But the specific Sufism from which the whirling dervishes originated, which is Turkish, is as simple as this. |
| Members tend to be puritanical in moral teachings and to disapprove of Sufism. |
| Every individual should try through the spiritual exercise of practising Sufism to reach God and to find God. |
