What Is Wisdom Quotes
Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.
It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.
Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks
Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them
It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.
You can’t always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.
Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on.
You are so much more than your mistakes.
I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.
Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master?
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
If everyone is against you, but God is for you. It is more than enough to keep moving.
Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.
Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.
You can’t help who you are, but you can change who you want to be.
You must get close to people and then you know who they are.
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.
Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself
And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.
It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life
As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.
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
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.
Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.
What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.
Before garden, vine or grape was in the world, " writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.
