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

Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

gold”, so I am rich.

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.

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

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Para el Mazo de la Mente Superior, los cielos son la bola más pequeña posible.

El Sendero no se encuentra en el rosario, la alfombra de oración y el manto”.

La existencia de una verdad relativa no prueba la inexistencia de la verdad universal.

… de hecho la acción es conocimiento en operación. La acción correcta proviene del conocimiento correcto.Este es adquirido a través del maestro.

Sólo la búsqueda de la verdad resulta válida, siendo el deseo de saber el motivo inicial. El método es la asimilación, no el estudio.

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

P: ,Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre?R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

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

An intelligent enemy,’ he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, ‘rather than a foolish friend.’ Or, ‘He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.’ Or, the favourite...

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...

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Dicho del ProfetaLa lenguaUn hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

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.

Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken

El Sufi es uno que obra como los demás, cuando es necesario. Es también uno que hace lo que los otros no pueden, cuando es lo indicado.

Recuerda el proverbio: “Una señal es suficiente para el vigilante, pero miles de consejos no son suficientes para el negligente.

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

secretos” son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.

El sufismo es experiencial. Las capacidades, incluso aquellas necesarias para aprender más allá de cierto punto, son provocadas por los Sufis, por los propios esfuerzos y lo que resulta de ellos, y por un elemento...

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’.

…action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Sufism is therefore not ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, or even ‘Do as I do’, but ‘Experience it and you will know’.

AmorePensi di amare il Creatore?Ama prima il tuo prossimo.

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.

Continuamente, en conmemoración del Amigo, bebimos vino, incluso antes de la creación de la vid.

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por la crueldad. Ninguno de estos abordajes es correcto.