Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I’ll be surprised.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

No colour comes after black.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Teach honesty by all means – you do know what it is, don’t you?

Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaHombre veraz: aquel que, secretamente, es considerado por todos como un enemigo.

Pregunta 3: ,Por qué una persona debería estudiar Sufismo?Respuesta: Porque fue creada para estudiarlo; es su etapa siguiente.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

Estudia las suposiciones que hay detrás de tus acciones. Luego estudia las suposiciones que hay tras tus suposiciones.

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertida’.

No existe práctica en aislamiento.

El hombre más estúpido que he conocido, tenía un dicho favorito. Era: “,Qué te crees que soy: estúpido… o qué?

Eruditos de Oriente y Occidente consagraron heroicamente sus existencias profesionales a poner a disposición del público el material literario y filosófico sufi, utilizando para ello sus propias disciplinas. En muchos casos hicieron referencia a la...

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one’s true interests.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man’s?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life’s waiting-room.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Dicho del ProfetaMonacatoNo hay monjes en el Islam.

La visión de Dios en la mujer es la más perfecta de todas.” Ibn el Arabi

Pobre avaro, donde quiera que vaya, él persigue alimentos, y la muerte lo persigue a él. (Saadi)

Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.

Los Sufis no están aquí para satisfacer una demanda. Existen para compartir lo que tienen. Estas dos cosas no son siempre lo mismo.

Hay un dicho que afirma que, según la mentalidad de una persona, incluso un ángel podría parecerle un demonio.

Aprender a aprender: Decir “sí” a la vía sufi es decir “no” a las fugas imaginadas.

El sufismo se transmite por medio del elemento humano, es decir del maestro.

Busca y serás hallado.

With enough information, it is almost impossible “not” to predict people’s action.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

find” him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.’ ‘Seek and you will be found.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

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...

…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

When the human being says:’It is not true…’He may mean:’I don’t know about it, so I think it is untrue.’Or:’I don’t like it.