Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not...
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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?
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.
Form is useful, but it is secondary.
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
Los secretos Sufis son percibidos, no entendidos a través de palabras.
He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
Quien es purificado por el amor, es puro; y quien es absorbido en el Amado y ha abandonado todo lo demás, es un Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.
Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.
El Sufi está vivo al valor del tiempo, y es dado, a cada momento, lo que ese momento demanda.
