Muéstrale a un hombre demasiados huesos de camello, o muéstraselos demasiado a menudo, y no será capaz de reconocer a un camello cuando se cruce con uno vivo.

La codicia te daña: la generosidad te ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: ‘La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad’.

Intentar forzar algo es el mejor modo de impedir que ocurra.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

Rust through washing never became white.

StagesFirst I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong.What was wrong...

One lie will keep out forty truths

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribeSubstitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Dicho del ProfetaLa Gente: En la gente se encuentra la familia de Dios.

Dicho del Profeta HumildadTanto la humildad como la cortesía son una parte de la piedad.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaPaciencia: un soporte para los decepcionados.

,Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

Que la auténtica verdad, cualquiera que fuere, me sea revelada

Pero los Sufis trabajan EN el mundo, y por lo tanto CON ‘cosas del mundo’.

El automatismo del hombre se supera, en palabras de Dhun’Nun, proponiéndose “ser como tú eras, donde tú eras, antes de que lo fueras”.

Aprender a aprender significa examinar las suposiciones. Los relatos de Mulá Nasrudín cumplen muy frecuentemente esta función.

No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario.

No es una casualidad que los Sufis piensen que pueden conectarse de forma más constructiva con personas que están bien integradas en el mundo, además de tener objetivos superiores, y que aquellas que adoptan una...

it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and...

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Dicho del ProfetaSoy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

El hombre y la mujer tienen una infinita capacidad para el autodesarrollo. E igualmente, una infinita capacidad para la autodestrucción.

La paciencia es amarga, pero produce un dulce fruto.

Han fijado nuestra nutrición y dispuesto la duración de nuestras vidas. Más que esto,y más allá de esto,los esfuerzos no serán productivos.

Para quien entiende, una señal es suficientePara el necio, sin embargo, mil exposiciones no son suficientes.

A pesar de lo rápido que corras, o lo hábil que seas, no podrás huir de tus propios pies

Recuerda que virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque apelan a tu codicia.

Hay un proverbio persa: “Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia”. Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

El Sufismo es experiencial.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.