Quotes About Truth

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

Lo Aparente es el Puente hacia lo Real'.

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

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Bueno. Muéstrame a una persona que cree que sabe lo que es "bueno" y probablemente seré capaz de mostrarte a una persona horrorosa. Muéstrame a una persona que realmente sabe lo que es "bueno" y te mostraré que casi nunca usa la palabra.

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

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

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

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

The liar has a bad memory.

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

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Voz en la noche Anoche, una voz me susurró: "¡No existe tal cosa como una voz susurrando en la noche!

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.