If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.
THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
None meets harm who knows his capacity.
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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.
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
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...
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.