Sufism Quotes - Page 5

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said "I am of fire, while Adam is of clay."Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just the form? How long, indeed, how long?Alas for that eye that's blind and bruised! Within it the sun seemed like an atomOf an Adam who had no like. He saw nothing but a lump of

How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

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

Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.

I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers,So your surroundings become a garden.Don't sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.We are all one body,Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

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

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

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

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.

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

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

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

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Make mankind your dwelling place.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

Except Him, whatever understood,O Bedil~ love made me forget.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

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

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

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven as they are both present inside this very moment. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience the presence and absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love him.

Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

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

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

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against which orthodox Islam ineffectually protested, promoted ignorance and superstition, and confounded charlatanry with lofty speculation. To live scandalously, to act impudently, to speak unintelligibly—this was the easy highroad to fame, wealth, and power.

No practice exists in isolation.

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

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

You’ll only know the answers once you love.

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.

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.

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

May we always see life through love-coloured glasses.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

Haste is from the Devil.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

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

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

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.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

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'.

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

In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

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.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.