193 Quotes About Sufi-wisdom

Certainly many if not most of Sufi love poems can be read as if they were addressed to a woman. In fact, without doubt a certain number of them were inspired by a woman‘s beautiful features, but this did not prevent the poet from viewing her loveliness as the mirror of God‘s Beauty. (p. 287)

Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

In the clay, there is a tiger and the problem is neither in the question nor is in the text, it is in interpretation. You can listen or read the answer in folk literature and Sufi music. To belong is to have a grammar and in grammar there are exceptions. You can never belong fully except to the gravity of the universe. We belong anyways.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.