374 Quotes About Sufi

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.

The true Sufi cannot utter any prayer beginning with the word 'I,' for example: 'I want to know Thee better.' For to do this presupposes that there are two beings: the Sufi and Allah. This is the greatest sin. Iblis cried, 'Ana khayrun minhu! (I am better than he is!') The personal pronoun 'I' is the classic Sufi symbol for pride in its extreme form.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds