Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
~ Idries Shah
Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.
A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.
What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.
Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.
The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
Nothing cheap without reason.
When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform
BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.
If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANGURGANI:,The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.
Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.
Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb
You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.
It will pass, whatever it is.
You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.
What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.
No colour comes after black.
Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.
Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.
THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
Rust through washing never became white.
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
None meets harm who knows his capacity.
