1,132 Quotes About Sufis

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

Humility has to precede instruction.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.