There are several steps on the path. This is a vast subject, but condensing it I would say that there are five principal steps.

1. The first is responsiveness to beauty of all kinds, in music, in poetry, in color or line.
2. The second is one's exaltation by beauty, the feeling of ecstasy.
3. The third step is tolerance and forgiveness, when these come naturally without striving for them.
4. The fourth is that one accepts as if they were a pleasure things one dislikes and cannot stand: in the place of a bowl of wine, the bowl of poison.
5. And the fifth step is taken when one feels the rein of one's mind in one's hand; for then one begins to feel tranquillity and peace at will. This is just like riding on a very vigorous and lively horse, yet holding the reins firmly and making it walk at the speed one desires. When this step is taken the mureed becomes a master.