Sufism Quotes - Page 8

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Idries Shah

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Idries Shah

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Idries Shah

Talking to the Divine is possible when you have your knowledge, thoughts, mind & body in line, remembering God with every breath. In Sufism, it is called ‘Sama’. But in reality, it should be called ‘Self realization’, I think.

Taranpreet Singh

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Idries Shah

He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion.

Soroosh Shahrivar

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

Idries Shah

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Idries Shah

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

Idries Shah

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

Idries Shah

If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

Idries Shah

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Idries Shah

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Idries Shah

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Idries Shah

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Idries Shah

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Idries Shah

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Idries Shah

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Idries Shah

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Idries Shah

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Idries Shah

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

Idries Shah

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Idries Shah

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

Idries Shah

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Idries Shah

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Idries Shah

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Idries Shah

Patience is the food of understanding.

Idries Shah

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Idries Shah

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Idries Shah

When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Idries Shah

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

Idries Shah

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

Idries Shah

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Idries Shah

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Idries Shah

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean.Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,and in the arms of the Sea be secure.Who indeed should be so fortunate?An Ocean wooing a drop!In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Whereas Jesus demanded of the Jews the rejection of the tribalist Jahweh whom they identified with Israel, the race, the community the political state as object of worship and desire, the Sufis, born in an atmosphere of pure monotheism, demanded what Jesus of the first century A.D. would demand if he were to relive his early life again in present-day monotheistic Christendom. This does not mean that Jesus did not demand, like the Sufis, the cleansing of the soul from the personal deities it may worship besides God, but it does mean that the main weight of his teaching centered around the Jewish preoccupation with the tribe as God.""The object and deal of Sufism is, therefore, identically the same as that of the radical self-transformation of Jesus. Both aimed at the state of consciousness in which God is the sole subject, the sole determiner and the sole object of love and devotion. The tradition of both later influenced each other and succeeded in developing the same kind of preparatory disciplines leading towards the end. Finally, both referred to the final end of these processes as 'oneness' and their reference was in each case exposed to the same dangers of misunderstanding, indeed to the same misunderstanding. The oneness of Jesus was misunderstood as unity and fusion of being, and thus gave rise to the greatest materialization of an essentially spiritual union history has ever seen. The oneness of the highest Sufi state was likewise misunderstood and gave rise to the worst crime perpetrated on account of a supremely conscious misunderstanding...The destinies of the two misunderstandings, however, were far apart. The Christian misunderstanding came to dominate the Christendom; the Muslim misunderstanding performed its bloody deed and sank away in front of the Sufi tide which overwhelmed the Muslim world. The success of Sufism in Islam was therefore the success of the Jesus' ethic, but devoid of the theological superstructures which this Christian misunderstanding had constructed concerning the oneness of Christ with God, or of men with Christ. In the Middle Ages, the intellectual disciples of Jesus were the sufis of Islam, rather than the theologians of the Council or Pope-monarchs of Christendom.

Ismail R. al-Faruqi

You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.

Kamand Kojouri

The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!

Idries Shah

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Idries Shah

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?

Kamand Kojouri

Love is cure, love is power,love is magicof changes,love is the mirror of divine beauty

Altaf ul qadri

You’ll only know the answers once you love.

Kamand Kojouri

I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner.

Kamand Kojouri

May we always see life through love-coloured glasses.

Kamand Kojouri

Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

Kamand Kojouri

I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

Kamand Kojouri

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,

Shah Asad Rizvi

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Shah Asad Rizvi

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

Shah Asad Rizvi

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

Shah Asad Rizvi

To live in love is my life’s purpose.

Kamand Kojouri

Thou seekest Lailâ. Yet she manifesteth herself within thee.Thou deemest her to be elsewhere, but elsewhere existeth not.That is a madness, well-known to lovers. So be on your guard, for otherness is the epitome of separation.Seest thou not, how her beauty enfoldeth thee.She disappeareth only if thou refusest part of thee.Come close to me, thou sayst to her, to her who is thine All.And when she loveth thee, she leadeth thee to thyself.Bliss ineffable is the meeting with her.No one reacheth her, who knoweth not essence without form.I have dissimulated about her,After I had truly displayed her through my veil.I hid her from myself, with the garment of mine own existence,And, out of jealousy, I hid her from the envier.Dazzling beauty! Should the light of thy countenanceTouch the eyes of a blind man, he would see each particle of dust.She is adorned with every grace pertaining unto beauty.And wherever she appeareth, she is desired by those who love.(Diwân)

Muhammad al-Harrâq

I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and twirled and twirled. 'Look,' I said. 'Look.

Rabih Alameddine

I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.

Kamand Kojouri

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

Kamand Kojouri

You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.

Kamand Kojouri

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