Sufi Quotes

Sufi Quote of the day

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

Don't Worry Be Happy

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Dance when you're perfectly free.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

I was you and never knew it.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

In your beauty, how to make poems.