927 Quotes About Sufism

When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven as they are both present inside this very moment. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience the presence and absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love him.

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.