Sufism Quotes - Page 2

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

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'.

Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

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

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

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

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

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

ANDAKI:tEFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Patience is the food of understanding.

To live in love is my life’s purpose.

The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!

No practice exists in isolation.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribetSubstitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

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.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

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.

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

Everything man needs is in the world.

Thou seekest Lailâ. Yet she manifesteth herself within thee.Thou deemest her to be elsewhere, but elsewhere existeth not.That is a madness, well-known to lovers. So be on your guard, for otherness is the epitome of separation.Seest thou not, how her beauty enfoldeth thee.She disappeareth only if thou refusest part of thee.Come close to me, thou sayst to her, to her who is thine All.And when she loveth thee, she leadeth thee to thyself.Bliss ineffable is the meeting with her.No one reacheth her, who knoweth not essence without form.I have dissimulated about her,After I had truly displayed her through my veil.I hid her from myself, with the garment of mine own existence,And, out of jealousy, I hid her from the envier.Dazzling beauty! Should the light of thy countenanceTouch the eyes of a blind man, he would see each particle of dust.She is adorned with every grace pertaining unto beauty.And wherever she appeareth, she is desired by those who love.(Diwân)

I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.