36 Quotes About Sufi-gnosis

The just Witness is the Beloved‘s Eye. (p. 292)

Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home. – Hadith of the Prophet

When you seek God, seek Him in your heart. – Yunus Emre

The soul’s happiness is in itself; nothing can make the soul fully happy but self-realization.

What does it mean to become spiritual, or godly? It means to have a higher view of life, to look at life from a higher point of view. It is the high point of view in life which ennobles the soul; it is by a broad outlook on life that spiritual aristocracy is realized.

There is a perfect wisdom working continually day and night. The mystic sees it in everything with open eyes; and that is the great miracle.

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place;I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.(p. 72)

I saw my Lord with the eye of the Lord. I asked 'Who art Thou?' and He answered 'Thou.

Love courses through all things. . . . No, It is all things. How deny It when nothing else exists? What has appeared – if not for Love – would not have been. All has appeared from Love, through Love, and Love courses through it. . . . No, all of it is Love. (p. 84)