最近剛剛看了一本書 The Sufis (一本關於蘇菲派的書)
才剛剛閱讀它的導讀,裡面有幾句話我覺得非常的棒.

"That absorption with the theme of love leads to ecstasy, all Sufis know. But whereas Christian mystics regard ecstasy as a union with God, the therefore the height of religious attainment, Sufis admit its value only if the devotee can afterward return to the World and live in a manner consonant with his experience.” (page XVI)

所謂的ecstasy指的是進入狂喜證悟的一個境界, 和用藥所導致的ecstasy不同之處在於領悟到人能夠和上天達到天人合一(union with God)的境界.
此外, 上面講的並不僅限於Sufis or Christian. 其實不管是任何宗教,甚至不需要依附任何宗教, 任何悟道的人都必須要能夠回歸到現實世界, 並且以一種和他(她)在狂喜證悟的經驗一致的生活態度去生活, 這樣這個悟道的人才算是真正達到天人合一的境界 and can attain the height of ecstasy.