Sufi Quotes
Rumi
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
3009Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.
4092 Elif Shafak
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.
Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.
2707 Rumi
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
3262 Fakeer Ishavardas
An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.
1896 Hāfez
When no one is looking,
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
4029 Idries Shah
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
3883 Idries Shah
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
1689 Idries Shah
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
3126 Rabia Al-Adawiyya
I have made You the companion of my heart.
But my body is available to those who desire its company,
And my body is friendly toward its guest,
But the Beloved of my heart is the guest of my soul.
3323 Idries Shah
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
2657 Idries Shah
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
1268 James Dillehay
If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.
4701 James Dillehay
We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.
4232 James Dillehay
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
2058 Idries Shah
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
1642 Idries Shah
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
2613 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.
2506 Idries Shah
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
4788 Idries Shah
The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
3901 Idries Shah
Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali
3162 Idries Shah
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
2154 Idries Shah
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
3510 Idries Shah
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
4290 Idries Shah
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
1118 Idries Shah
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
3587 Idries Shah
Words have to die if humans are to live.
1066 Idries Shah
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
3377 Idries Shah
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
4442 Idries Shah
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
2487 Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
2544 Idries Shah
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
1717 Idries Shah
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
3261 Idries Shah
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
4034 Idries Shah
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
4332 Idries Shah
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
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