sufi

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren__ doing what we really want with our lives.

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

116. "I have heard that on the day the world was born,the bird of love was released to fly.It searched all the three worldsbut could not find a fit resting place.So it turned and entered the inmost heart,favoured it and never flew elsewhere.The three worlds asked it then,'Why are you attached to the human heart?''Suffering," it replied, "is the only hope for humans.Where there is sorrow, there I dwell.'Where there is grief in the world, love has its dwelling.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.