May we always see life through love-coloured glasses.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.
You’ll only know the answers once you love.
Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?
You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.
But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.
~ Usman T. Malik
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
~ 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.
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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.
~ Rabia Al-Adawiyya
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali
Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?
~ Donna Goddard
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
~ Holly Lynn Payne
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
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.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
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?
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
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?
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
~ Soroosh Shahrivar
