Sufis hesitate to speak about God, not because they do not believe in God but because their whole heart and spirit is for God. When you ask a question, "What is God?" They look at you and say, "Who are you to ask about God, and who am I to tell you what God is?"
Here in our Sunday schools everybody already is a friend of God. They know what He is. He has a nose and ears. That is God. We brought God to such a limitation, to our level of understanding, that God became a cartoon. When I was in a foreign country one month ago, a little girl said, "Can you tell us what God is?" "Suppose," I said, "I can tell you. Will you understand? The best way you can know about God is to go to the desert at midnight and look at the stars for two, three hours, and ask them, what is God? And if the stars tell you, you are lucky."
Do not cheapen God. That is why in the Bible it says, "Do not take His Name in vain." Do not take His Name; you do not know what He is! Solar systems, millions of galaxies, millions of zodiacs, He is beyond it. What is beyond it? Beyond it is beyond it and beyond it and beyond it. Who you are to understand God? Sufis do not talk about it.
They say, "Only God reveals Himself to you if He pleases." And when He reveals Himself within your soul, you zip your mouth because it is an ocean, something you cannot contain. And here they say, "God, God, God."
God must not be spoken about; God must be observed in your actions and behaviors. Do not tell me you are this or that. Show me. Are you? If you are, you do not need to talk. A rose does not say, "I am a rose." You see it is a rose; it is so beautiful.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Teachings of Great Ones
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