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.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what ‘belief’ is really for.

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

La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Las palabras tienen que morir si los humanos han de vivir.

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

raindrop drip to the earthwet duskin the dim light of the sunI looked at the restless humanMy niche pensivetightness in the heartI was stunned for a momentI call Your namewhich is often forgottenAllah

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you – but: what did you learn?

Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.

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.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Aquello que se da gratis nunca es conocimiento. Puede ser información….pero el conocimiento no llega de esa manera.

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

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufiscompare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the...

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Un libro, para los Sufis, es tanto un instrumento como algo que brinda infromación… La clave es el maestro.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

I have made You the companion of my heart.But my body is available to those who desire its company,And my body is friendly toward its guest,But the Beloved of my heart is the guest of...

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’.

No existe práctica en aislamiento.