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

Las instituciones de estudio se hacen más visibles cuando la cabeza está más vacía de imaginaciones.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information….The key is the teacher.

There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.And a voice answered and said, ‘Who is there?’The lover replied, ‘It is I.”Go hence,’ returned the voice;’there is no room within for thee and...

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

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

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

If you are ‘humble’, it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Con suficiente información es casi imposible “no” predecir las acciones de la gente.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Quien se conoce a sí mismo, conoce a su Dios” significa, entre otras cosas, que el engaño de sí mismo impide el conocimiento.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

What you seek is seeking you.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

La verdadera generosidad es anónima hasta tal punto que un hombre debería estar incluso preparado para ser considerado tacaño antes que tener que explicar sus acciones a otros.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

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

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another’s happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

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

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

La institución de la enseñanza existe por esta razón: el aprendiz debe aprender a aprender.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Los Sufis sostienen que la experiencia y el conocimiento superior le llegan al hombre o mujer en exacta concordancia con su valor, capacidad, y esfuerzo puesto en ello.

My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of...

They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Es necesaria una preparación muy cuidadosa antes de que la gente pueda percibir algo que está allí todo el tiempo.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one’s true interests.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

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

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

When people have a hard task to do – one which stretches them – they become less concerned with trivial matters.

RemedioTu medicina está dentro de ti, y tú no la ves. Tu enfermedad viene de ti mismo, y tú no te das cuenta. Hazrat Ali

The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is...

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

Los sufis, reza el dicho, comprenden con sus corazones lo que los académicos más ilustrados no pueden comprender con sus mentes.

No practice exists in isolation.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.