1,132 Quotes About Sufis

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.