Sufis Quotes - Page 8

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

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

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

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

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

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

A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

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

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

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

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

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

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.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

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

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

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.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

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

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

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