sufis

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.