Sufi Quotes

35 quotes by 16 authors

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. — Rumi
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… — Eknath Easwaran
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day… — Rajneesh
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or… — Rumi
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,… — Shams Tabrizi
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… — Eckhart Tolle
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
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… — Idries Shah
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend… — Idries Shah
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also… — Jack Kornfield
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain. — Tori Amos
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that… — Idries Shah
I know you're tired but come, this is the way. — Rumi
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert

Who Wrote These Sufi Quotes

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