Quotes About Sufis

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

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.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

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.

No es una casualidad que los Sufis piensen que pueden conectarse de forma más constructiva con personas que están bien integradas en el mundo, además de tener objetivos superiores, y que aquellas que adoptan una actitud razonable hacia la vida y la sociedad tal como la conocemos pueden por lo general absorber muy bien las enseñanzas Sufis

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Los Sufis han dicho: "La importancia de algo está en proporción inversa a su atractivo.

Los Sufis consideran mecánicos y degenerados a los sistemas que tratan a todos de la misma forma.

Los Sufis apuntan a refinar la consciencia humana. Esto es el misticismo Sufi: no mistificación o magia, pero una vía específica.

Los Sufis son aquellos que han erradicado de sus mentes las tendencias humanas de envidia y enemistad.

Dhun'nun el Egipcio: "Los Sufis son aquellos que han erradicado de sus mentes las tendencias humanas de envidia y antagonismo.

Un instante en presencia de los Amigos (Sufis) es mejor que cien años de dedicación sincera y obediente

Los Sufis sostienen que la experiencia y el conocimiento superior le llegan al hombre o mujer en exacta concordancia con su valor, capacidad, y esfuerzo puesto en ello.