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.

Dicho del ProfetaAyudando a otrosLes ordeno ayudar a cualquier persona oprimida, tanto si es musulmán como si no.

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.

Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaPenitente: alguien a quien se ha incapacitado para disfrutar.

Desde el comienzo, desde la edad de Adán hasta la época de las monarquías: del poderoso, perdón; del pobre, pecados.

El pájaro que no tiene conocimiento del agua pura tiene su pico dentro de agua salada todo el año.

Nadie que conozca su capacidad tropieza con perjuicio.

Las formas han cambiado a través de los siglos obedeciendo al mundo externo al cual toda forma pertenece.

Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.

Cuanto más despierto está un hombre ante las cosas que lo rodean, más dormido está; y su despertar es peor que su sueño.

la respuesta a un tonto es el silencio”:La observación, sin embargo, indica que prácticamente cualquier otra respuesta tendrá el mismo efecto a largo plazo.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Sufism, in one definition, “is” human life.

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

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

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

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Dicho del ProfetaEl juezUn hombre que es nombrado juez ha sido asesinado sin cuchillo.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Ningún color viene después del negro.

En el domino de la Comprensión Mayor, el taller se desmantela cuando el trabajo ha terminado.

Los ángeles son los poderes ocultos en las facultades y órganos del hombre

,Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?” está muy bien. Pero qué hay con “,De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?”.

P: ,Cuál es un error fundamental del hombre?R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la ‘creencia’.

El sufismo o “tradición secreta” no se encuentra disponible sobre una base de suposiciones que pertenecen a otro mundo, el del intelecto.

,Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?”.

No practice exists in isolation.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

DistribuzioneE’ Dio che dà, io sono solo un distributore.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy – improve yourself!

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’.

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?