1,132 Quotes About Sufis

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Dicho del ProfetaIntimidadQuien invade la intimidad de las personas, las corrompe.

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.