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.
~ James Dillehay
When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
~ Idries Shah
Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia
My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
~ Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Sufism is known by means of itself.
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'.
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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.
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition
The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!
~ Dr. S.u.a.h Syed
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
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.
~ Jasz Gill
The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all. Ibn Arabi.
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
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.
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.
