Sufi Quotes - Page 5

• The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Doe, Care

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.126, Octagon Press Ltd

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• it's about a love song to myself, and a love song to the universe, kind of like the way that Song of Solomon consists of love songs to God or like the way Sufi poems are erotic love songs to God, I kind of wanted something like that. Because I was getting to know myself more deeply at this point. I've always been on this track where I wanted to be enlightened.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Track, Erotic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Trying, Trends, Want

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Taken, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

  Eckhart Tolle

  Heart, Mean, Ego

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

  Rumi

  Valentines Day, Sky, Making Love

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Echoes, Voice

  "Selected Poems".

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• If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Ifs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  Rumi

  Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

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• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Dancer

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Pain, Media

  Song: Cruel, Album: From the Choirgirl Hotel, 1998

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

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of Islamic culture and civilization to philosophy to art to science to social structure to economics who have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Art, Philosophy, Islamic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Men, Fellow Man

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• From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Islam, World

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

  Rumi

  God, Spiritual, Water

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

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• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  Idries Shah

  Christian, Religious, Taken

  Idries Shah (1974). “The Elephant in the Dark”, p.6, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

  Robert Bly

  Wine, Divine Feminine, Attention

  Source: www.utne.com

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• You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

  Florence Nightingale

  Buddhism, Growth, East

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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• 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 through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Making Love

  "Masnavi". Poem by Rumi, edition.cnn.com.

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• Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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