Sufism Quotes
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.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
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.
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.
Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
Sufism, the "secret tradition, " is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.
Although hundreds of friends Have become my foes, The friendship of One Has given security to my soul. Rejecting many I have embraced the One-At last I am He and He is me.
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
Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.
A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart
The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.
you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
