96 Quotes About Sufi-way

We will attain a state where Allah's prophets and saints become our relatives who will come to meet us and talk with us. (p. 67)

As faith grows, all our human faculties and attributes are absorbed in the Love of the One and the quest for Truth. As presence develops in us, so does faithfulness. Everything becomes harmonized by that presence. Finally, that presence is unified in the One.

To attain spirituality is to realize that the whole universe is one symphony in which every individual is one note. His happiness lies in becoming perfectly harmonious with the symphony of the universe.

We can bring quality into the details of life if we remember to be and act with precision. If we can consciously be at that point where the horizontal force of active choice meets the vertical force of Being, a certain „something“, larger than life, will be activated. This „something“ can be felt in anything produced by the hands and hearts of a conscious human being – in works of art, in a well-tended garden, in food prepared with love.

The soul is a knowing substance that knows the Reality beyond time and space. To acquire this kind of knowing is to become illuminated, to be connected to a greater intelligence that will guide every step of your life. Instead of living in fear and uncertainty, you will more and more be able to trust the unfolding of Life. (p. 78)

One danger is that the person will strive very hard in spiritual disciplines as a way of avoiding or burying deep pain. Eventually, however, he or she will realize that the spiritual path must bring everything to light.

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is t olive for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego.

The Work is to bring the outer and the inner into harmony. (p. 103)

Since in order to speak, one must first listen,learn to speak by listening.Rumi, Mathnawi I: 1627