Quotes About Understanding

Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

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.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

If you want to know what he's like — reverse what his opponents say.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

El libro de la sabiduría. Simab dijo: "Venderé el libro de la sabiduría por cien piezas de oro, y algunos dirán que es barato." Yunus Marmar le dijo: "Y yo regalaré la llave para comprenderlo, y casi nadie la tomará, incluso aunque sea gratis.

And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.

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

La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías.

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

Sufism is experiential

Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.

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.

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

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

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.