Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases...

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

Better to be safe than to be sorry’ is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the...

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think...

Dicho del ProfetaOpresiónCuando existe la opresión, incluso el pájaro muere en su nido

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

Para el Mazo de la Mente Superior, los cielos son la bola más pequeña posible.

El Sendero no se encuentra en el rosario, la alfombra de oración y el manto”.

Al Sufismo se lo conoce por medio de sí mismo.

La pereza es siempre culpa tuya. Es el signo de que un hombre ha perseverado inútilmente durante mucho tiempo.

Es axiomático que el intento de hacerse sufi para lograr ventajas personales, o lo que suele entenderse por las mismas, no tendrá éxito.

Más vale prevenir que curar” es una observación valiosa únicamente cuando esas son las alternativas reales.

La palabra “elección” es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Definition of a SufiTo learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in...

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties...

Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man’s own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

Dicho del ProfetaTinta y sangreLa tinta de los sabios es más sagrada que la sangre derramada por los mártires.

Dicho del ProfetaObjetosEs tu apego a los objetos lo que te hace ciego y sordo.

Me llamas descreído (…) te llamaré verdadero creyente, pues el mejor contrapunto de una mentira es otra de igual magnitud.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

El hombre está disfrazado, cubierto por su lengua

Antes el Sufismo era una realidad sin nombre: ahora es un nombre sin una realidad”.

Las personas con objetivos falaces son como la tierra árida. Las flores crecen en la tierra compuesta de los objetivos correctos.

Las palabras tienen que morir si los humanos han de vivir.

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que ‘no’ está en su destino.

Dramático. Un sentido bien desarrollado de lo dramático tiene valores que van más allá de lo que la gente generalmente imagina. Uno de éstos es darse cuenta de las limitaciones del sentido de lo dramático

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

El Sufismo es experiencia, y por lo tanto no algo a ser definido, aprisionado en categorías perennes, estáticas.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all his knowledge to a thick tome which was kept in a...

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of...

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Dicho del ProfetaDeseoNo desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.