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.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaEmocionalista: un hombre o mujer que cree haber experimentado lo divino.

Pero el mundo mismo, así como cualquier actitud especial, apropiadamente comprendida, constituye la escuela Sufi.

Los milagros, para el Sufi, no son evidentes; son instrumentales.

Un instante en presencia de los Amigos (Sufis) es mejor que cien años de dedicación sincera y obediente

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé.

Si tu deseo de lo ‘bueno’ está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.

Cuando el Hombre Superior hace algo digno de admiración, es una prueba de su Maestría, no el objeto de ella.

Como dice el refrán oriental del sabio Hilali, ‘una persona que entiende vale más que cien que meramente obedecen a una costumbre.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun’Nun, by aiming for ‘being as you were, where you were, before you were’.

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is ‘the Wise’.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

TeachingOne hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.