No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and...
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
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