1,132 Quotes About Sufis

If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

The blackness of night is an essential quality of the Divine Feminine. The "black cloak" of Muhammad is very famous. The Sûfîs sing about kali kamaliya vala (the one wrapped in the black blanket) in their qawwalis (spiritual songs). Muhammad's prayer rug was also black, as was the first flag of Islam.

Sufis acknowledge that in each generation there is a being known as the Qutub, or Axial Centrality, the Spiritual 'Pole' of the Age.

I asked who are you ? He said I am the one, a clay potter.I asked what is in the clay ? He said my commanded soul.And he then said whatever and whoever the clay are made of I am the one who command the soul in it.And I asked curiously who is he who has born to a virgin who had breath the soul in the clay? and made it fly!He said shush!!! he is my secret!

It is the distinguishing of irrelevance from relevance which marks the Sufi enterprise.

If you insist on buying poor food, you must be prepared to dislike it at the serving.

Whoever makes himself into bran will be eaten by cows.

Sufi is the name for the Realised Human Being.