What is the difference between the work a Sufi does and that of another mystic? In the East the Yogi mystics are the most known, and it is worth while to consider what difference there is.

• The Yogi tries to touch the infinite by diving deep into his innermost being; and the process he takes is to close himself and move as far away from the world as he can. And by doing this he reaches that depth which is the goal everyone is seeking.
• The methods of the Sufi differ from those of the Yogis in that the Sufi opens himself to all that is good and beautiful. He says that to go back to the infinite without having known all that is beautiful here is absurd. He wants to love all the beauty of the earth, and so he opens himself. Therefore his path is very difficult -- to love and yet not to be attached; to be in the crowd, and yet in the solitude; to be in the world and yet be above it.