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.

I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn’t take my eyes off Her.