![]() ![]() That is the lure of the mystic in the postmodern fog of California, and Pico Iyer, one of the most refined culture junkies on the move, is here trying to see the lost stars in the elusive texts of the Sufi. Like stars that can't be seen in mid-afternoon". ![]() For the Sufi, man is not fallen, just fallen asleep we are not lost, just temporarily obscured. They do not care whether you call the destination God or Truth or Reality or Emptiness. The drive of the Sufi is to find the hidden self, the secret soul, that has the capacity to take us back. PILGRIM'S PASSAGE: Pico Iyer sings Rumi to the WestĪsk Madonna, or Demi Moore, or buy Rumi on a CD for yourself, but please don't ask John Macmillan, the protagonist of Abandon, an Englishman in California doing research on the Sufis, especially Rumi, and for whom "the cry of the Sufi is, quite simply, the cry of abandoned love. ![]()
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