sufis

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

You yourself are your own barrier _ rise from within it.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it_.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man_ therefore increase your necessity.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years_ time.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.