Sufism Quotes - Page 6

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

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

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.

I'm born with wild horses in my head..With an imagination to conquer this world..I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage.

Jasz Gill

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!

Dr. S.U.A.H Syed

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

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

Soroosh Shahrivar

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

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

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

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.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

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.

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