927 Quotes About Sufism

(از ابوالحسن بوشنجی راجع به حقیقت تصوّف پرسیدند، گفت:) امروز اسمی است و حقیقت پدید نه؛ و پیش از این حقیقت بود بی اسم.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.