Sufism Quotes Quotes

“You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
You must be more awake than light
for we aren’t born sleeping
and we shouldn’t live sleeping.
Only then will death’s slumber
become sweet.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
and tear your clothes — destroying
everything that separates you from the Lover.
Once you taste the fruit of this vine,
you will be kicked out of the city of yourself.
You will forget the world. You will forget yourself.
I tell you:
you will become a madman
who wanders the streets looking for the Lover
once you drink this Wine of Love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Making true love is not about feeling the skin,
It's about feeling the soul without touching.”
― Bzam

“If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love,
I am intoxicated beyond recognition.
Now, I only pray for the nearness of You
so I may advance in my annihilation.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If I told you about a land of love,
friend, would you follow me and come?
In that land are vineyards,
that yield a deadly wine -
no glass can hold it.
Would you swallow it as a remedy?”
― Yunus Emre, The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems

“Love is like a gold mine,
The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive.”
― Bzam

“My heart is your student,
it studies love,

And, like the night,
waits at the gate of dawn.

Where I go,
I follow where love's face leads.

Because oil flows
to the flame that it feeds.”
― Rumi

“Fall in love so that when death comes life will be cured.”
― Bzam

“A gushing sound is created by the flowing rivers, streams and rivulets. But on joining the sea they become calm and serene. Likewise, the various stages of mysticism are to be considered."
- Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti”
― Reyaz Nadeem, THE SUFI KING OF HINDOSTAN

“The essential self is fundamentally invulnerable and at ease, because it is anchored in Being. This anchoring at the core of oneself allows the personality to be much more vulnerable, open, honest. If the essential self adopts a provisional or social identity — which may be necessary for certain reasons—it does not take it too seriously, does not become completely identified with it. The essential self does not become inflated with its identity, it lives in the humility of presence and can keep a sense of humor about itself.”
― Kabir Edmund Helminski, The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

“هل أنا من أخلق دراما حياتى أم أنت ؟! أجبنى يا الله ...أجبنى ولو بعلامة بإشارة ..أعلم أن العلامات، والإشارات إنما تختص بها أولياءك الصالحين...لكنى أستحلفك بذاتك العلّية، وبقدوس أسمائك السماوية، وبكل ما فتحت، وتفتح به عليّ. أن تفتح يا إلهى عليّ بخيرك الوفير، وتصطفينى مع عبادك الأبرار، وتعاملني معاملة الأخيار الأطهار. أعلم أنى لست منهم، لكنها فضائل رحمتك، وفيوض عظيم قدرتك عليّ يا الله...يا الله أرنى علامة تفتح بها عليّ ، لأعلم ما هو عليّ عصى، لأرى حقيقة ما في قلبي وأراك ...لن أسالك كما سألك موسي من قبل ..بأن أراك رؤية العين ، لكنى أستحلفك بك أن أراك رؤية القلب.”
― بسمة أبو العزم, أغنية داليدا الاخيرة

“You are always in the Love; And the Love is always in you.”
― Syed Sharukh

“You are veiled behind the scriptures,
You are veiled behind the verses,
You are veiled behind the meaning,
You are veiled behind the alphabet,
You are veiled behind the numbers,
You are veiled behind the alif,
You are veiled behind the dot,
You are veiled behind the prophets,
You are veiled behind the messengers,
You are veiled behind the awliya,
You are veiled behind the sufiya,
You are veiled behind the nafs,
You are veiled behind the universe,
You are veiled behind the body!”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Among the sufis, one attains purity not by ritual ablution, not by faith and worship, not by deed or merit, but by direct knowledge, experience, certainty, the drunkenness of ecstatic realization. Only this intoxication truly purifies the soul, because with this "wine" one becomes lost, and finds oneself, within the heart. One loses all separative delusions, the dirt of a muffled consciousness, and attains the One. This is to wander nude in the bazaar, like a naked Qalandar. But if the bazaar is shocked, then scandal belongs to the bazaar, not the dervish. Like a drunkard, the suf loses his reputation in the world because the world has lost its reputation with him. The petty bazaar stands accused of hypocrisy; the naked man stands before God.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“Love, then, is the binding power of being, on every level of reality. In fact, love is being and reality: love turning toward love in love with itself. Everything is on this track, and everything being/consciousness/bliss, whether it "knows" itself as such or not. But the soul which awakens and finds itself in the dance: that soul has won the bet.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“Billions of stars will lose it's fuel from the brightness of the only face, the guest of your heart,
The beauty of your soul.”
― Bzam

“Even a dirty mind
Have pure soul,
Love is eternal.”
― Bzam

“My Way It's The Only Way, It's Not The Way.”
― Syed Sharukh

“Come with me
Just let's let our words rest
Time for you to
Join God’s shibboleth

Take a deep breath
And you will see
The truth inside
Sufi rhapsody

The truth inside
Dancing blissfully
The truth inside
A gift from the Almighty

The truth inside
Your spirit is heavenly
Heed my words dear one
Signing off Mowlavi”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“I am not born because I am given birth but I am born because I have been blessed with a perfect spiritual master.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Sufism is monopolizing the heart with the creator's love.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“When love invites the entire universe dances in ecstasy for the lover finally meeting with the beloved.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Love is a flower that grows in the garden of the heart.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Ego feels poor(needy) all the time.
It cannot think of giving; be it love, attention, money, care, even a kind word. It is damn self-centered.”
― Hasnain Waris