Quotes About Perception

Bueno. Muéstrame a una persona que cree que sabe lo que es "bueno" y probablemente seré capaz de mostrarte a una persona horrorosa. Muéstrame a una persona que realmente sabe lo que es "bueno" y te mostraré que casi nunca usa la palabra.

La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías.

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

Sufism is experiential

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

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

The phenomenal is the channel to the Truth. Al mujazu qantarat al Haqiqa.

Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

IMPRESSIONS Time brought a thousand impressions. Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertido'.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Lo que tienes que aprender es cómo encontrar lo no mundano en todo.

Voz en la noche Anoche, una voz me susurró: "¡No existe tal cosa como una voz susurrando en la noche!

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

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