orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any...

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.’Why?’ someone asked him.’To squeeze out the rain.

Dicho del ProfetaAmor,Crees que amas a tu Creador? Ama primero a tus semejantes

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

Aprende acerca de las avispas, de aquéllos que han sido picados por ellas.

Non posso fidarmi”, finché è padrone dell’opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.

alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

…muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia.

La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they...

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: ‘There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person’s beliefs at the...

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the...

Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Dicho del ProfetaAlimentoNadie ha comido mejor alimento que el ganado mediante su propio esfuerzo.

Trata a este mundo como yo; como un caminante, un jinete que se detiene a la sombra de un árbol por un tiempo, y luego prosigue su camino.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaIntelectual: alguien que no conoce oficio.

El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla”.

La forma es útil, pero secundaria.

Mejor discutir con un amigo que apoyar enemigos.

Los medios por medio de los cuales la gente percibe la verdad tienen formas. La verdad no tiene forma.

Si eres “humilde”, puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas superiores.

Quien es purificado por el amor, es puro; y quien es absorbido en el Amado y ha abandonado todo lo demás, es un Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

Descalzo hasta que puedas obtener sandalias, sandalias hasta que puedas valerte de botas”.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

To say “yes” to the Sufi way is to say “no” to imagined escapes.

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: ‘What did you do that?’...

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: ‘Which is better, to be young or to be old?’ He said: ‘To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to...

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Dicho del ProfetaPráctica,Quiénes son los sabios? Aquéllos que ponen en práctica lo que saben.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Golpéate tu mano en una piedra y espera que duela.

La paciencia es el alimento de la comprensión.

El Sufi está vivo al valor del tiempo, y es dado, a cada momento, lo que ese momento demanda.

Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo…nunca debe acabar de esta manera.