- Knock, And He'll open the door.
- Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun.
- Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
- Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
- A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
- The sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky.
- Pray for what you want, but work for the things you need.
- When The Mirror of The Heart Becomes Pure and Clear, Impressions of The Other World Will Become Manifest. The Image and The Image-Maker Will Become Visible.
- Salih always told his students, “If you constantly knock at the door, one day it will be opened to you.” Rabia heard him say this and remarked, “Salih, how much longer do you intend to preach this in the future tense, saying ‘will be opened?’ Was the door ever closed?” Salih bowed in acknowledgement.
- The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life’s destruction.
- Be overflowing with peace and joy, and scatter them wherever you are and wherever you go.
- Be a blazing fire of truth, be a beauteous blossom of love and be a soothing balm of peace.
SUFISM
Sufism is the inner mystical dimension of Islam. To the Sufi, it is the transmission of divine light from the teacher's heart to the heart of the student, rather than worldly knowledge. Sufism is a mystical Islamic belief and practice in which people seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God.
The Sufi considers God as his/ her beloved (loved one.)
SUFI SONGS
"Why is it that the yearning for the Loved One is especially strong today?
Why is my heart sadder today than even before?
Why does longing penetrate every tissue of mine?
And why are the eyes shedding tears like a shower of rain?"
"This face emerged from the Faceless One
The Faceless One manifests Himself through this face. The Colorless has been revealing itself through this image, Ever since Unity exploded into Diversity."
RABIA-AL-BASRI (SUFI POETRY)
"If I adore You out of fear of Hell,
Burn me in Hell!
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty."
"In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.
Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is illumined nothing,
where ecstasy gets poured into itself and becomes lost, where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or body?"
"In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church that dissolve, that
dissolve in God. Your prayers are your light;Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,You will only turn to dust."
"In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?"
RUMI QUOTES AND POEMS
"A bird is flying high; its shadow speeds over the earth like an actual bird: a fool starts to chase the shadow, running so far that he exhausts himself, not knowing that it is but the reflection of that bird in the air, not knowing where the origin of the shadow is.
He shoots arrows at the shadow and the quiver is emptied-his life is wasted by what he seeks. But when the shadow of God tends to him, it saves him from every illusion."
"Don't go to sleep this night
One night is worth a hundred thousand souls
The night is generous it can give you a gift of the full moon.
It can bless your soul with endless treasure
Wake up, wake up this night is gone
Wake up!"
"Abandon abandon
even your dear self.
Abandon."
"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of That.
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That."
"This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself."
"No I am not roaming aimlessly around the streets and bazaar,
I am a lover searching for his beloved.
God have mercy on me I am walking around troubled.
I have done wrong and sinned and am walking around wounded.
I have drunk the wine of desire and am strolling around beloved.
Though I may seem drunk I am quite sober."
"As salt dissolved in the ocean
I was swallowed in God’s sea,
Past faith, past unbelieving,
Past doubt, past certainty."
"Suddenly in my bosom
A star shone clear and bright;
All the suns of heaven
Vanished in that star’s light."
