Quotes About Spirituality

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers. The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

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.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

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

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

You may not appreciate Sufism at first, but once you do you will appreciate it until the end of your days.

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

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

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

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

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

Teaching One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism? Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.