Wisdom Quotes - Page 14

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Truth has no form.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Rust through washing never became white.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

It will pass, whatever it is.

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.

No colour comes after black.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

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.

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

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.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

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

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

Nothing cheap without reason.

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’.

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

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.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

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.

You can’t help who you are, but you can change who you want to be.

Benny Bellamacina

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windListened for what was never spoken.Though half a score of years are gone,Spring comes as sharply now as then—But if we had it all to doIt would be done the same again.It was a spring that never came;But we have lived enough to knowThat what we never have, remains;It is the things we have that go.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

Elizabeth Kelly

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older.

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