927 Quotes About Sufism

In my experience an insane person (and I have met a few) is someone who believes that the entire universe and everything in it is conspiring against him. The sane person, on the other hand, is the one who believes that the entire universe and everything in it is conspiring for him. I, fortunately, am a denizen of the latter category. (p. 283)

All we have learned so far amounts to only a handful of earth. What we have yet to learn is as large as the whole world. There is so much to know about the mysteries and the wealth of Allah. There is so much more to be known, and we will learn it only as our wisdom develops. We must proceed slowly, always learning more and more. (p. 8)

When you become the light of wisdom, darkness can never conceal you. (p. 40)

Sit with the masters, drink in their baraka, for their mere presence radiates such light that whoever is with them is penetrated by it through and through.

The end of the end is the beginning like the absence of the absence is the presence.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

No practice exists in isolation.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Silence is not a lack of words. Silence is presence itself. (p. 26)