Sufi Quotes
I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.
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.
I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.
Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.
Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.
But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.
Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.
Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets
The Sufis, ' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.
Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.
Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
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.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali
When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
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.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
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.
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'.
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.
