Sufism Quotes
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
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.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.
When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
I'm born with wild horses in my head..With an imagination to conquer this world..I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage.
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).