Quotes About Awareness

Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

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.

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

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

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 sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

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

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

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.

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)

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

Sufism is experiential

Put your dough into the oven when it is hot: After making sure that it is in fact dough.

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

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)