Sufi Quotations

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

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.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

I was you and never knew it.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all...

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself