Sacred Drift Quotes

“And Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“It is always morning, the caravan is always departing. All we can do is share the Prophet's prayer - "O Lord increase our amazement" - and set forth into the Bewilderness.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“For the Sufi Traveler, every journey is the haji, every tajalli is the Kaaba. Every path, if it be properly understood, is the Path; every way, however fraught with difficulty, can be experienced as a "straight" path to realization.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“If modern dervishes are no more than
"traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for the presence of such wild free spirits, just as it needs the presence of some wilderness, unplanned, unmanaged, apparently profitless, chaotic as God first made it. (And both of these needs seem to fall under the patronage of the master traveler, Khezr himself).”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“When you say the name of Khezr (or Khadir) in company you should always add the greeting "Salaam aliekum!" since he may be there - immortal and anonymous, engaged on some mysterious karmic errand. Perhaps he'll hint of his identity by wearing green, or by revealing knowledge of the occult and hidden. But he's something of a spy, and if you have no need to know he's unlikely to tell you. Still, one of his functions is to convince skeptics of the existence of the marvelous, to rescue those who are lost in deserts of doubt and dryness. So he's needed now more than ever, and surely still moves among us playing his great game.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“As for me, I admire above all Noble Drew's aesthetic, his unique and special blend of Afro-American, Native-American, High Magical, and Oriental symbolism and imagery - as well as his courage, his martyrdom, and his revolutionary stance against "Pharaoh." By Americanizing the prophetic spirit he injected our culture with a kind of folk Sufism. On the esoteric level, anyone who loves Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice is a member of the "Asiatic race" and the Lost/Found Moorish Nation of North America.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam