The principal teaching of Sufism
is that the heart of man is the shrine of God,
to recognize God in one’s own heart, to feel His existence,
presence, virtue, goodness, all manner of beauty. It must be
remembered that the whole life around us is a life of falsehood.
The more you see and experience the more you see how very false
it is, how much disillusionment there is. The only way of getting
over it is to light the lamp in the darkness of night, and all will
be cleared. The secret of life is this: to produce beauty in
ourselves. When beauty is produced in the heart,
then all that breaks the heart vanishes and the
whole universe becomes one single
vision of the sublimity
of God.