sufism

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.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.