Sufism Quotes - Page 10

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.

The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.

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.