Quotes About Understanding

La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.

Los Sufis pueden enseñar por medio de cualquier vehículo, como quiera que se llame.

Las ideologías existen únicamente donde no hay conocimiento absoluto. Si sabes algo, no tienes que creerlo o dejar de creerlo…

Sufi is the name for the Realised Human Being.

Sufi" es un nombre para el ser humano realizado.

Quien que no ha visto el rostro de la confianza, no ha visto nada. Quien que no ha encontrado la complacencia, no ha encontrado nada.

Sufism is the knowledge whereby man can realize himself and attain permanency.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

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

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

T)ime flies like a mountain stream and who asks a question today may not hear the answer tomorrow.

Quién conoce el bien?. le preguntaron a Dante y él respondió: sólo quien conoce el mal.

Todo buen cristiano ha de ser más pronto a salvar la proposición del prójimo que a condenarla; y, si no la puede salvar, inquira cómo la entiende; y, si mal la entiende, corríjale con amor; y, si no basta, busque todos los medios convenientes para que, bien entendiéndola, se salve.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you

I'd love to give you something but what would help?