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.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Sufism, the “secret tradition,” is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

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?

If you are ‘humble’, it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Dicho del ProfetaEnseñanzaUna hora de enseñanza es mejor que una noche entera de oración.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaComunidad: irracionales unidos por la esperanza de lo imposible.

Puede que seas capaz de engullir el hueso a través de la garganta, pero si llega a tu estómago perforará tu ombligo.

Quienquiera que me haya enseñado una letra me ha hecho su esclavo.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

Ellos dicen: “Busca la sabiduría mientras tengas la fuerza, o puedes perder la fuerza sin obtener la sabiduría”.

Las instituciones de estudio se hacen más visibles cuando la cabeza está más vacía de imaginaciones.

Pero el mínimo deber humano es servir a otros: no es un gran logro.

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A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information….The key is the teacher.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Who is the wrong person to criticise?You

Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God’s family.(Muhammad the Prophet)

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Dicho del ProfetaQuienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:’Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Como el azúcar no es arsénico, muchas tumbas están llenas.

MuerteSi es un buen hombre, la muerte será una liberación; Si es uno malo, liberará a otros de él.

El Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.

Si eres codicioso, eres un prisionero. Si eres avaro, nunca serás llenado.

Cuando la gente cree que la forma es más importante que la verdad, no encontrarán la verdad, pero se quedarán con la forma.

Se ha dicho que la “Humildad no es tanto una virtud como una necesidad a la hora de aprender”.

Recordando y OlvidandoNo te has olvidado de recordar;Te has acordado de olvidar.Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

¡No existe tal cosa como una voz susurrando en la noche!

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

WisdomSufian said: ‘The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what ‘good’ is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what...

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.