1,330 quotes found
“Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.”
“Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.”
“If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.”
“The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real”
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.”
“Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.”
“Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.”
“Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.”
“One lie will keep out forty truths.”
“He that is purified by love is pure”
“If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, ...”
“As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.”
“Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.”
“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.”
“Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Ju...”
“The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object less...”
“Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at ...”
“A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”
“The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is like. Furthermore, it’s quite hard to predict what you would do in the same s...”
“What’s important to remember is that while human beings in general can engage in toxic behaviors from time to time, abusers use these manipulation tactics as a dominant mode of communication. Toxic...”
