Patience is also necessary in the path. Perhaps it will surprise you if I say that after my initiation in the Order of the Sufis and six months continually in the presence of my Murshid, only then did he say a word on the subject of Sufism. It will amuse you still more that as soon as I took out my notebook, he went on to another subject; it was finished. One sentence after six months! A person would think, "What a long time. six months sitting before one's teacher, nothing taught!" But, friends, it is not words, it is something else. If words were sufficient, there are libraries full of occult and mystical books. It is life itself, it is the living. Those who live the life of initiation live and make others who come in contact with them alive. Remember, therefore, that in the Sufi Order you are initiated, not especially for study, but to understand and follow what real discipleship means.