Quotes About Awareness

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

Who is the wrong person to criticise? You

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

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.