O lover who listens to primordial silence! O swan who parts the smooth waters of Essence! What happiness flows from the soul who becomes consciously capable of a love totally unified with the One God, fully absorbed in the Most Near, Who is Love! Manifesting beyond the duality of humankind and Deity, beyond surface teachings and exercises of religion, this state of total absorption actually constitutes Sufism. – Shaykh Nur al-Jerrahi / Lex Hixon . . .