927 Quotes About Sufism

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Farsi Couplet:Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanastZauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neestEnglish Translation:The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn