Sufis Quotes - Page 6

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)

Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

The liar has a bad memory.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

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

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Humility has to precede instruction.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

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