Evolution Quotes
People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe
When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.
There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.
Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.
If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.
Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.
The Sufis, ' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.
Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.
... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.
A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.
When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.
Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.
As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.
To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.
Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.
In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.
The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.
A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)
None should say: ‘I can trust, ’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.
if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.