THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
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.
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object 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.
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...
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
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'.
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
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