sufis

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

The Sufi is one who does what others do _ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do _ when it is indicated.

The lightning said to the oak tree: __tand aside, or take what is coming to you!

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and __rders_ are in fact only of archaeological interest.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

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

None should say: __ can trust,_ or __ cannot trust_ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can__ run away from your own feet.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work