The Quest Part 1 - Ideas
THE QUEST - PART 1 : IDEAS
The first of three volumes based on question and answer sessions held regularly by Abdullah for his pupils over a period of several years. The Quest gives practical information on all facets of the work required to balance one’s psychology and develop spiritually.
Volume I attempts to stimulate in the reader the need to look further than the surface of the ideas it presents. The sixty chapters include the topics Art, Breath, Buddhism, Carlos Castaneda, Christ, Conscious suffering, Death, Earth, Evolution, the Gnostics, Islam, Marriage, Population, Self-hypnosis, Solar System, Taoism, Zoroaster.
An excerpt from ‘Art’ | An excerpt from ‘Buddhism’
608 pages Hardcover 236 x 164mm
ISBN 0-9597566-1-2
$NZ 39.00 + p&p
Sufism has in it all that is necessary for a person to perfect himself, but the limiting factor, as in any field of human endeavour, is what the person himself brings to it. To a great many people Sufism is Whirling Dervishes and dances, but this is only a very minor aspect. The aim of Sufism is self- annihilation, that is, the destruction of one’s ego, which we believe can be achieved only when one has become a balanced human being. Unfortunately most people who attempt this are working from the emotional centre, so instead of destroying the ego they make a new, much stronger ego. At such a point in our quest there can be absolutely no emotionalism at all. When working with the spirit one is in a completely passive state, thus the noughting of oneself is a task done in complete silence, which can never be explained in words.
