927 Quotes About Sufism

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

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.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.