927 Quotes About Sufism

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.

Sufism travels into the realm of story, inspired analogy and esoteric understanding of the Qur'an, so that the Sufi may ultimately become the Essence.

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

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

To think about our bodies as horses to be ridden or even temples to be occupied, is to create a duality between our thinking and our body. It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.