Quotes About Essence

Love is the only permanent relationship among men, and the permanence is not an accident of it, but is of its very essence.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

And the names drew about themselves a nimbus of quality, of good and bad and color and weight and hardness, a state of existence to come, a state of existence that was and a state of existence that had been.

The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust. (Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

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

Nosotros y todas nuestras existencias son no-entidades. Tú eres el ser absoluto cuya apariencia es transitoria.

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

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

Saadi's dictum, in the Bostan: 'The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Truth has no form.

La verdad no tiene forma.

I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.

Yo soy lo real, pues no he cesado de ser real… a través de lo real.

La forma es útil, pero secundaria.

Lo que va dentro de una mina de sal se convierte en sal.

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

Toma el trigo, no la medida que lo contiene.

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

El Sufismo es la esencia de todas las religiones".

Sabiduría Sufian dijo: "La sabiduría que es invisible pero que sustenta es cien veces mejor que la apariencia de sabiduría, porque ésta tiene que ser sostenida.