Quotes on Sufi

There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

What strikes the oyster shell _x000D_ doesn't damage the pearl.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it._x000D_ _x000D_ Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it._x000D_ _x000D_ You Presume you are a small entity,_x000D_ _x000D_ But within you is enfolded the entire universe._x000D_ _x000D_ You are indeed the evident book,_x000D_ _x000D_ By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest._x000D_ _x000D_ Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,_x000D_ _x000D_ What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.