Five-minute practice · 5 minutes

How to practise Sufism in five minutes.

Sufism — a practice from Persia is The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self. Here is how to bring it into your life when you only have a coffee break to spare.

  1. Step 1

    Sit, and start the timer for five minutes

    Anywhere quiet enough. Phone face down. You do not need a cushion or a candle. Sufism did not come from a studio.

  2. Step 2

    Recall the single sentence

    Hold this in mind: The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self. Do not analyse it. Let it stay there the way a stone stays at the bottom of a well.

  3. Step 3

    Find one thing today that matches it

    One moment. A small one. The work is not to engineer the moment; it is to notice when it arrives. When you do, the five minutes is over.

That is the entire practice. You do not need a longer version of Sufism than this — only a more regular one.

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