Quotes About Insight

The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

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.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

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

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

Patience is the food of understanding.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

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

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

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

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé. Las sutilezas del incomparable

Dramático. Un sentido bien desarrollado de lo dramático tiene valores que van más allá de lo que la gente generalmente imagina. Uno de éstos es darse cuenta de las limitaciones del sentido de lo dramático

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.

Sufism is experiential