sufis

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire _ even when no fire ensued.

Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Truth has no form.

Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Rust through washing never became white.

Nothing cheap without reason.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?