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

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

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: ‘I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.’ Yunus Marmar said to him: ‘And I shall...

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

None should say : ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaPobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.

La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.

Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken

El Sufi es uno que obra como los demás, cuando es necesario. Es también uno que hace lo que los otros no pueden, cuando es lo indicado.

Recuerda el proverbio: “Una señal es suficiente para el vigilante, pero miles de consejos no son suficientes para el negligente.

Un libro, para los Sufis, es tanto un instrumento como algo que brinda infromación… La clave es el maestro.

secretos” son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.

Y yo regalaré la llave para comprenderlo, y casi nadie la tomará, incluso aunque sea gratis.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

… when we are talking about ‘Christians’ and ‘Moslems’ we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the...

Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as ‘systems’, which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the...

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

Dicho del ProfetaLa lenguaUn hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaPartidario: alguien que dirá cualquier cosa.

Tú eres tu propia barrera… sáltala desde adentro.

Continuamente, en conmemoración del Amigo, bebimos vino, incluso antes de la creación de la vid.

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por la crueldad. Ninguno de estos abordajes es correcto.

Aquello que se da gratis nunca es conocimiento. Puede ser información….pero el conocimiento no llega de esa manera.

El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.

Una mentira dejará fuera a cuarenta verdades

Puedes aprender más en media hora de contacto directo con una fuente de conocimiento (no importa la razón aparente del contacto o el tema de la transacción) que en años de esfuerzos formales.

You can perceive a person’s aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

God”.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, ‘one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

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.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, ‘Is that an Emperor at all?

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible...