sufi

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

When no one is looking,I swallow deserts and cloudsand chew on mountainsknowing they are sweet bones!When no one is lookingand I want to kiss God,I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;if I sit in my own place of patience,what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me,is looking for me and attracting me.There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

God begets love.