sufis

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Humility has to precede instruction.

The liar has a bad memory.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. __he expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.