Quotes About Experience

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

THE BIRD AND THE WATER A bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar

El camino Sufi es a través del conocimiento y la práctica, no a través del intelecto y el habla. Como dice el príncipe Dara Shikoh en el poema persa: ¿Deseas ser incluido con los Señores de la Visión? Pasa (entonces) del discurso a la experiencia. Al decir "Unidad", no te transformas en un monoteísta; La boca no se vuelve dulce por la palabra "Azúcar".

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

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

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

El sufismo es experiencial. Las capacidades, incluso aquellas necesarias para aprender más allá de cierto punto, son provocadas por los Sufis, por los propios esfuerzos y lo que resulta de ellos, y por un elemento al cual los Sufis se refieren como lo Divino.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.

De acuerdo con los sufis, existe una sucesión de experiencias, que en conjunto constituyen la maduración educativa y evolutiva del estudiante. La gente que piensa que cada logro es la meta misma se congelará en cualquiera de tales etapas, y no podrá aprender por medio de lecciones sucesivas y sustitutivas.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

The phenomenal is the channel to the Truth. Al mujazu qantarat al Haqiqa.

IMPRESSIONS Time brought a thousand impressions. Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it.