Sufi Quotes

When the seeker is ready, the Master appears.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God.

Your task is not to seek love but to find the barriers within yourself that you
have built against it.
~ Rumi
With love you cannot bargain
there, the choice is not yours.
Love is a mirror,
it reflects only your essence,
if you have the courage
to look in its face.
To the parched lips of those
who are willing to surrender
Love will bring the wine
that changes darkness into vision,
cruelty into compassion and
dust into precious incense.
Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath
to tear a hundred veils.
Love means
to step away from the ego,
to open the eyes of inner vision
and not to take this world so seriously.
~ Rumi

Neither earth nor Heaven can contain me

But the Heart of my Lover
If you find me not within you, you will never find me.
For, I have been with you, from the beginning of me.
~ Rumi
Sit, be still, and listen.
~ Rumi

An old Cherokee told his grandson: My son, there is a battle between two wolves i
nside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, and resentment, inferio
rity, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, k
indness, empathy, and truth.
The boy thought about it, and asked, Grandfather, which wolf wins?
The old man quietly replied, The one you feed.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear
.
~ P. Coelho

The only real rest comes when youre alone with God.
~ Rumi

Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through
anxieties caused by others. Leave this play, you have played enough!
~ Rumi

I do not want to waste my words on tired minds. I can only talk to those who are
thirsty for the sea.
~ Rumi

Two things tell about you:

Your patience while you don t have anything,
And the attitude you display while you have it all.
~ Rumi

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence.
~ Hz. Ali

Souls learn from other souls, not from books or lectures.

~ Rumi

Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.
~ Hz. Ali

A woman who tries to be the man of the house will generally find her house somed
ay without a man
Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim (Sea Without Shore)
A mans jihad today is to be a man. Women are already good at being women.
Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad

The knowledge received from books is nothing but a compendium of guess and conje
cture in comparison to the knowledge gained from the Spiritual guides and the ho
ly saints whose company transform dust into gold; turn stony hearts into pearls
.
The knowledge gained from their lips reaches the very core knowledge imparted to
them, is the knowledge of Divinity, to which Shaykh al-Akbar Mohiyuddin Ibn al-
Arabi called "Knowledge of taste" or ilm al-Zawq.
After acquiring that knowledge the entire personality and character of man under
goes a revolution i.e stony hearts are turned into pearls.
This is why Mevlana Jal al ad-din Rumi said: "Throw your hundred books and volum
es in fire and turn for a moment your soul and heart to your beloved." We are th
us inclined to believe that the knowledge as imparted by these noble spritiual g
uides is not merely hypothetical but is derived from the source of prophet hood
and is real and when it is accepted and followed, God himself becomes the impart
er - the teacher or instructor, as stated in the holy Qur an, "So fear God, for
it is God that teaches you." (2:282).
Therefore, it is incumbent that one should have close association with these nob
le holy men and ultimately one may attain the highest proximity with God.
Look to the ocean and watch its message. It will come. It will come.
~ Rumi
Its your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk
it for you.
~ Rumi
To Love is to reach God.
~ Rumi
The cure for the pain is in the pain.
~ Rumi
Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.
~ Rumi
And God said Love Your Enemy, and I obeyed him and loved myself.
~ Khalil Gibran
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
~ Rumi