Browse 510 quotes about Sufi.
“Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas superiores.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“For the Sufi Traveler, every journey is the haji, every tajalli is the Kaaba. Every path, if it be properly understood, is the Path; every way, however fraught with difficulty, can be experienced as a "straight" path to realization.”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“For one who lives with kindness, every day is Ramadan.”
Source: L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale
“I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse to hate my brother from another mother - like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature and ultimately disperse into nature.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse to hate my brother from another mother.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Arabic is one of the rarest soulful languages spoken by the human race, yet in the hands of eurocentric propaganda apes are conditioned like pavlov's dogs into believing it to be the most sinister.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Tawhid doesn't mean all other gods are false, tawhid means it's all one god.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Benim için insanlıktan başka büyük din hiçbir şey yok.”
“Those who are moved by love, can move the whole world.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Se insisti a comprare cibo scadente, devi essere pronto a disgustarlo.”
“La caridad ha sido convertida en una gran virtud sólo por el bajo nivel de decencia humana.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Ningún esfuerzo convierte a un cuervo negro en un halcón blanco. Anwar-i-Suhaili”
Source: The Dermis Probe
“Un perro amarillo es hermano del chacal.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Nessuno dovrebbe dire: “Posso fidarmi” o “Non posso fidarmi”, finché è padrone dell’opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.”
Source: Reflections
“La verdadera generosidad es anónima hasta tal punto que un hombre debería estar incluso preparado para ser considerado tacaño antes que tener que explicar sus acciones a otros.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Copiar una virtud de otro es más una copia que una virtud. Trata de aprender sobre qué se basa tal virtud.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la ‘creencia’.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“No ser codicioso es, paradójicamente, la más elevada forma de mirar por los verdaderos intereses de uno.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Cuando la fortuna llama, abre la puerta", dicen. Pero, ¿por qué mantienes la puerta cerrada y obligas a la fortuna a que llame?”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Con suficiente información es casi imposible "no" predecir las acciones de la gente.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse:
La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco
La palabra dicha precipitadamente
La oportunidad perdida.
Ali, el León del Islam.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Los Sufis sostienen que la experiencia y el conocimiento superior le llegan al hombre o mujer en exacta concordancia con su valor, capacidad, y esfuerzo puesto en ello.”
“El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“Aquello que se da gratis nunca es conocimiento. Puede ser información....pero el conocimiento no llega de esa manera.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“Quien se conoce a sí mismo, conoce a su Dios" significa, entre otras cosas, que el engaño de sí mismo impide el conocimiento.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Es necesaria una preparación muy cuidadosa antes de que la gente pueda percibir algo que está allí todo el tiempo.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Los sufis, reza el dicho, comprenden con sus corazones lo que los académicos más ilustrados no pueden comprender con sus mentes.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“La persona que tú mismo sientes ser, de acuerdo con los Sufis, es una falsa persona que no tiene una realidad verdadera.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Remedio
Tu medicina está dentro de ti, y tú no la ves. Tu enfermedad viene de ti mismo, y tú no te das cuenta.
Hazrat Ali”
Source: El camino del Sufi
“La institución de la enseñanza existe por esta razón: el aprendiz debe aprender a aprender.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Una barba mejor que la tuya.
“Todos los verdaderos devotos llevan barba,” dijo el Imán a su audiencia. “Muéstrenme una barba espesa y brillante, y yo les mostraré a un verdadero creyente!” “Mi cabra tiene una barba mucho más tupida y larga que la tuya,” contestó Nasrudín. “¿Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?”.”
“It is not enough that you look for Him.
You must hunt for God each and every day
as if your life depends on it.
Because it does.”
“Put down your stones.
Why are you breaking the window
when God has left the door wide open?
If you are afraid, lover,
follow me.
I will guide the way.”
“Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“The Illiterate (A Sonnet)
I am poetry,
I am the poet.
I am literature,
Yet I am illiterate.
Illiterate am I of intellect,
Illiterate am I of rituals.
My literacy comes from the soil,
My literacy makes the world equal.
Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.
Be literate of books and brain,
But more so of the dormant light.
Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Lock-n-Key (The Sonnet)
I am the lock,
You are the key.
Sight of your smile,
showers me with glee.
I got no need for church-n-mosque,
Got no need for God or Jehovah.
These are for those seeking security,
Upon love's face unfolds my Mecca.
Yesterday I was a sensible infant,
I studied scripture seeking holiness.
Today I am a grownass nutter,
Only godly gift is love's holy mess.
Bibles are expendable,
Altars are expendable.
Till love takes preference,
God itself is expendable.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“In the most profound of Sufi teachings, we discover that the goal of Sufi practice is to create a kind of twin. In other words, for every apparently living human being, through profound exercises, the Sufi creates a spiritual counterpart (a twin) in the spirit realms. In addition, for every spirit dwelling in the spiritual realms, there exists a physical counterpart in the apparent world. This is precisely why Sufis pray at the Shrines (tombs) of Sufi saints who have made the transition, because these saints are very much alive and puissant in the physical or apparent world.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.”
Source: The Writings of Amir Khusrau: 700 Years After the Prophet: A 13th-14th Century Legend of Indian-Sub-Continent
“I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.”
“In poetry I am sufi,
In philosophy I am advaitin.
In duty I am scientist,
In existence I am human.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“This continuos loop of Love Divine,
like an Angel, sublime yet blind.”
“The true Sufi cannot utter any prayer beginning with the word 'I,' for example: 'I want to know Thee better.' For to do this presupposes that there are two beings: the Sufi and Allah. This is the greatest sin. Iblis cried, 'Ana khayrun minhu! (I am better than he is!') The personal pronoun 'I' is the classic Sufi symbol for pride in its extreme form.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Love is poetry of the cosmos,
Love is constitution supreme.
Breaking all comatose sanity,
Love dawns consciousness supreme.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way