Quotes About Tradition

La práctica de los Sufis es demasiado sublime como para poseer un comienzo formal.

Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

El sufismo o "tradición secreta" no se encuentra disponible sobre una base de suposiciones que pertenecen a otro mundo, el del intelecto.

Continuamente, en conmemoración del Amigo, bebimos vino, incluso antes de la creación de la vid.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Él (maestro) trabaja de acuerdo con las chances de sus estudiantes y la posibilidad de mantener la continuidad de la comunidad de Sufis.

La herencia y la cultura oscurecen las capacidades superiores de la gente.

El gran poeta Hafiz dice que deberías teñir tu alfombra de oraciones con vino si tu maestro te dice que lo hagas.

Puede que hayas olvidado el Camino: Mas aquellos que vinieron antes No se olvidaron de ti. Bahaudín Naqshband de Bujará.

La mayoría de las supuestas organizaciones Sufis, ejercicios y "órdenes" sólo son de interés arqueológico.

La ciencia deteriorada es un culto, así como el Sufismo deteriorado o imitativo.

Saying of the Prophet The Bequest I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Dicho del Profeta El legado No tengo nada que dejarles, excepto mi familia.

Dicho del Profeta Monacato No hay monjes en el Islam.

The breakup of the old order in the Near East, according to Sufi tradition, reunited the 'beads of mercury' which were the esoteric schools operating in the Egyptian, Persian and Byzantine empires into the 'stream of quicksilver' which was intrinsic, evolutionary Sufism. The

No vale la pena agitar el frasco de las garrapatas. Esto es un juego, como todo lo que vale en la literatura. La palabra es una y la misma; la novela, digan lo que digan, viene de siempre y continúa. Rompiéndola, prevalece. En efecto, si no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, es porque lo viejo vale para la novedad.

Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms

Recordings of Georgian folk polyphonic songs makes a great musical impression. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian folk music the origin of which begins from ancient time. It is a wonderful finding and can give to the performance much more than all the modem music can... Yodel or "Krimanchuli" as it is called in Georgia is the best song which I have ever heard. ["America" magazine, No 23 1967]

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means "No" or "Nothing" and Ah means "Me"). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.

Being Irish is very much apart of who I am I take it everywhere with me

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.

Any man who can't appreciate a classic pickup ain't worth his weight in salt.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid ... to whose glorious insipidity, I owe the happiest moments of my life, let me fall prostrate.