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

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...

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”.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

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

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...

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark...

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

AmorePensi di amare il Creatore?Ama prima il tuo prossimo.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult – hate him.

Epitafio de Jalaludin RumiCuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

¡Apártate o aguanta lo que te viene!

No cuentes tus secretos a todo el mundo en esta sede central, Tierra. La hemos examinado bien. No había nadie a quien confiar secretos.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse:La flecha una vez que ha partido del arcoLa palabra dicha precipitadamenteLa oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.

ServicioNo serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera demi salario.Rabia el-Adawia.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: ‘Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

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.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.