Quotes About Understanding

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

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

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

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

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

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

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

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

Patience is the food of understanding.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

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

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.