Sufi Quotes
No practice exists in isolation.
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.
He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.
MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
He that is purified by love is pure
I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.
No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.
Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.
You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.
Farsi Couplet: Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast, Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast. English Translation: If there is a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this
I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.
It is not enough that you look for Him.You must hunt for God each and every dayas if your life depends on it.Because it does.
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.Humbled by others' kindness.Humbled by life.I drop down to my knees and give thanks.
As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.