Quotes About Transformation

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

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

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Words have to die if humans are to live.

There is no purpose in hammering cold iron.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

El camino Sufi es a través del conocimiento y la práctica, no a través del intelecto y el habla. Como dice el príncipe Dara Shikoh en el poema persa: ¿Deseas ser incluido con los Señores de la Visión? Pasa (entonces) del discurso a la experiencia. Al decir "Unidad", no te transformas en un monoteísta; La boca no se vuelve dulce por la palabra "Azúcar".

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

Rust through washing never became white.

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Ningún esfuerzo convierte a un cuervo negro en un halcón blanco. Anwar-i-Suhaili

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.