Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
~ Idries Shah
Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).
An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.
People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.
Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.
Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.
You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.
DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.
They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
Make mankind your dwelling place.
What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.
Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.
You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
No practice exists in isolation.
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
