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Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
With the passion and depth of feeling that belong to lovers, Sufi masters through the centuries have described the soul’s journey toward union with God. This collection of sayings, dating from the ninth century to the present day, follows the stages of the journey, allowing the masters to beckon us along this ancient path.
245 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
71 books126 followersLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953, London) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and spirituality.
:: History
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953. He began following the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi path at the age of 19, after meeting Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. He became Irina Tweedie's successor and a teacher in the Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and founded The Golden Sufi Center to help make available the teachings of this Sufi Lineage (see http://goldensufi.org).
:: Works
Author of several books, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe on Sufism, mysticism, Jungian psychology and dreamwork. He has also specialized in the area of dreamwork, integrating the ancient Sufi approach to dreams with the insights of Jungian psychology. Since 2000 the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness. More recently he has written about the feminine, the world soul, the anima mundi, and the emerging field of spiritual ecology (see http://workingwithoneness.org). He has also hosted a number of Sufi conferences bringing together different Sufi orders in North America (see http://suficonference.org).
His initial work from 1990 to 2000, including his first eleven books, was to make the Sufi path more accessible to the Western seeker. The second series of books, starting from the year 2000 with The Signs of God, are focused on a spiritual teachings about oneness and how to bring them into contemporary life, with the final book in this series being Alchemy of Light.
Llewellyn has been featured in two films, One the Movie & Wake Up. He has also been featured in the Tv series Global Spirit and in August 2012, he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a part of her Super Soul Sunday series. He also writes a blog on the Huffington Post.
:: Books
* The Lover and the Serpent: Dreamwork within a Sufi Tradition (1990: out of print)
* The Call and the Echo: Sufi Dreamwork and the Psychology of the Beloved (1992: out of print, reissued in 1998 as Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology)
* The Bond of the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved (1993)
* In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork within a Sufi Group (1994)
* Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters (1995)
* Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart (1995)
* The Paradoxes of Love (1996)
* The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography (1997, 2nd Edition 2009 with new Introduction and Epilogue)
* Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology (1998)
* The Circle of Love (1999)
* Love is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home (2000)
* The Signs of God (2001)
* Working with Oneness (2002)
* Light of Oneness (2004)
* Moshkel Gosha: A Story of Transformation (2005)
* Spiritual Power: How It Works (2005)
* Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice (2006)
* Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life (2007)
* The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul (2009)
* Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic (2011)
* Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism (2012)
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953, London) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and spirituality.
:: History
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953. He began following the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi path at the age of 19, after meeting Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. He became Irina Tweedie's successor and a teacher in the Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and founded The Golden Sufi Center to help make available the teachings of this Sufi Lineage (see http://goldensufi.org).
:: Works
Author of several books, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe on Sufism, mysticism, Jungian psychology and dreamwork. He has also specialized in the area of dreamwork, integrating the ancient Sufi approach to dreams with the insights of Jungian psychology. Since 2000 the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness. More recently he has written about the feminine, the world soul, the anima mundi, and the emerging field of spiritual ecology (see http://workingwithoneness.org). He has also hosted a number of Sufi conferences bringing together different Sufi orders in North America (see http://suficonference.org).
His initial work from 1990 to 2000, including his first eleven books, was to make the Sufi path more accessible to the Western seeker. The second series of books, starting from the year 2000 with The Signs of God, are focused on a spiritual teachings about oneness and how to bring them into contemporary life, with the final book in this series being Alchemy of Light.
Llewellyn has been featured in two films, One the Movie & Wake Up. He has also been featured in the Tv series Global Spirit and in August 2012, he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a part of her Super Soul Sunday series. He also writes a blog on the Huffington Post.
:: Books
* The Lover and the Serpent: Dreamwork within a Sufi Tradition (1990: out of print)
* The Call and the Echo: Sufi Dreamwork and the Psychology of the Beloved (1992: out of print, reissued in 1998 as Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology)
* The Bond of the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved (1993)
* In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork within a Sufi Group (1994)
* Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters (1995)
* Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart (1995)
* The Paradoxes of Love (1996)
* The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography (1997, 2nd Edition 2009 with new Introduction and Epilogue)
* Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology (1998)
* The Circle of Love (1999)
* Love is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home (2000)
* The Signs of God (2001)
* Working with Oneness (2002)
* Light of Oneness (2004)
* Moshkel Gosha: A Story of Transformation (2005)
* Spiritual Power: How It Works (2005)
* Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice (2006)
* Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life (2007)
* The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul (2009)
* Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic (2011)
* Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism (2012)
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January 15, 2021
The sayings of the Sufi Masters contain the sacred fragrance of the Beloved, the undeniable taste of divine beauty and truth. It seems that all of Sufi philosophy - the philosophy of Divine Oneness or Nonduality - is contained in this one sentence: „Inside this robe there is only God.“ – Sheikh Abu-Said Abil-Kheir When the ego is completely surrendered to the Divine, then only the Divine Self remains: truth, beauty and goodness in selfless service towards all sentient beings. Being a servant of God means being a servant of life. Life itself is sacred and divine. All is God and God is All. In the words of the Sufi mystic al-Hallâj: „I am he whom I love, and he whom I love is I.“
January 26, 2013
When you seek God, seek Him in your heart—
He is not in Jerusalem, nor in Mecca nor in the hajj.
YÛNUS EMRE
Wonderful insight of what sometime we see all around us but could not feel it, could not observe it and may be dont utilize the power which is inside us for so many years and we let that power to sleep forever
He is not in Jerusalem, nor in Mecca nor in the hajj.
YÛNUS EMRE
Wonderful insight of what sometime we see all around us but could not feel it, could not observe it and may be dont utilize the power which is inside us for so many years and we let that power to sleep forever
January 30, 2008
Gives you a little, yet very delicious taste of mystic tradition (Sufism) in Islam.
June 22, 2025
My favourite sayings:
1) The Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.
2) The Sufi is separated from mankind and united with God, as God has said, “And I chose thee for Myself,” that is, He separated him from all others. (Al Shibli)
3) You are a Sufi when your heart is as soft and as warm as wool.
4) If you walk to Him, He comes to you running
5) The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
1) The Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.
2) The Sufi is separated from mankind and united with God, as God has said, “And I chose thee for Myself,” that is, He separated him from all others. (Al Shibli)
3) You are a Sufi when your heart is as soft and as warm as wool.
4) If you walk to Him, He comes to you running
5) The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
May 16, 2018
Excellent collection of quotes for each common subjects of sufism. A good quick referance for people on the path.
Some word translations are bit lacking, as it tries to follow the english term. Some of original words may it be in Persian or Arabic can't be truly fully transfer their meaning unless it is retained and explained in commentary. Regardless this is still a good collections of sayings that catered to starters and veteran of the path.
Some word translations are bit lacking, as it tries to follow the english term. Some of original words may it be in Persian or Arabic can't be truly fully transfer their meaning unless it is retained and explained in commentary. Regardless this is still a good collections of sayings that catered to starters and veteran of the path.
April 6, 2021
I have read many spiritual books, including Sufi books and i must say this one was excellent. it went slowly, clearly, thru the various phases of learning with poetry from the great Sufi masters, and i came away with a greater understanding of the path. it was a really nice read, very enlightening.
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November 6, 2009Very inspiring quotations from the Sufi masters
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