Hasan came upon Rabia one day when she was sitting among several contemplators, and said, “I have the capacity of walking on water. Come, let us both go on to that water yonder, and sitting upon it carry out a spiritual discussion.”
Rabia said, “If you wish to separate yourself from this august company, why do you not come with me so that we may fly into the air and sit there talking?”
Hasan said, “I cannot do that, for the power that you mention is not one which I possess.”
Rabia said, “Your power of remaining still in the water is one possessed by fish. My capacity of flying in the air can be done by a fly. These abilities are no part of real truth – they may become the foundation of self-esteem and competitiveness, not spirituality.”
Osho (Acharya Rajneesh) in the book Sufis: People of the Path
Rābiʼa (famous as Rabia Basri, 716-801 CE) was an Arab Muslim saint, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential religious figure. She is considered by many Muslims to be an example of piety and is a part of the early history of Islam. According to Sufi accounts, she was the first to set forth the doctrine of divine love known as ishq and is widely considered being the most important of the early renunciants, a form of piety that would eventually be labelled as Sufism.
Acharya Rajneesh (1931-1990), known later as Osho, was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial religious leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organised into any one system of religious dogma. He advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he asked his followers to live fully in the world but without attachment to it. Pic courtesy: https://www.sannyas.wiki/