Sufi Spirituality Quotes & Sayings

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up. — Kate Nash

how it can be that I have lost everything in my life but this journey. This hope that there is an end. — Carrie Ryan

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing. — Mary Pratt

... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation. — Coleman Barks

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us. — Patrick Ness

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ... — Johannes Kepler

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds. — Jose Rizal

Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished? — Donna Goddard

All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer. — Joe Teti

Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God. — Kamand Kojouri

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. — Idries Shah

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it. — Richard Dawkins

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card

On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible. — Jimmy Carter

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute — Rumi

She very nearly reached for his hand, but curled her fingers into a fist instead. He wouldn't appreciate her pity, and how did you pity a man who'd survived hell? You didn't pity him. You admired him. — Maya Banks

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches. — Al Jarreau

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. — Aneurin Bevan

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 — Idries Shah

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint. — David Trubridge

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. — David Hockney

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi