Sufi Wisdom Quotes

Sufi Wisdom Quote of the day

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.

Do not destroy anybody’s peace. You will find peace.

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

Stand bloody tall - you're the All.

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

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

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Love The Way Love, Loves You

The feet and their tappingWrite many a lovely coupletThe body dances to your rhythm O lordAfter all, you are the master and I a puppet

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.

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

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

I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.