Sufism Quotes
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.
A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.
The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.
If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.
Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.
Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.
Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: 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.
Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.
Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.
Although hundreds of friends Have become my foes, The friendship of One Has given security to my soul. Rejecting many I have embraced the One-At last I am He and He is me.
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
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
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
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
Sufism, the "secret tradition, " is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
