Patience is the food of understanding.
HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn throu...
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their tr...
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.
Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
La paciencia es el alimento de la comprensión.