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“There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'”

Heart Mean Spirit Found Lost Cases Wonderful Ego Ancient Rejoice Sufi Paraphrase

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.”

Growth Buddhism East Mysticism Sufi Pantheism

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“Dance when you're perfectly free.”

Dancing Dance Dancer Sufi Sufi Wisdom Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Dance Life Dancers Inspiration Sufi Mystic

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”

Way Mean Book Ordinary Understood Intellect Sufi Book Learning

Book:The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

“Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature”

Source: The Sufis

“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.”

People Thinking Together Goal Stage Lessons Gains Educational Sufi Succession Freeze Learners Developmental Ripening

Book:A Perfumed Scorpion

Source: A Perfumed Scorpion

“The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.”

Thinking Way Different Problem School Spiritual Form Depends Pressure Ritual Followers Application Dogma Repetition Sufi Accustomed Commentators Degenerates

Author:Idries Shah

“A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.”

Men Stills Spirit Religion Spirituality Left Behinds Century Movement Expression Buddhism Scene Garden India Lays Add Dimensions Japan Makers Aesthetic Asia Sufi Handful Sects Flowering Moguls

Author:Russell Page

“The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.”

World Together Prayer Practice Praying Praise Posts Ties Sufi Camels

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.”

Art Pain Media Ten Entertainment Celebrate Sufi

Author:Tori Amos