Mysticism Sufi Wisdom Quotes

#1. Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest


English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.

Amir Khusrau

#2. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.

English Translation.

Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.

Amir Khusrau

#3. A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#4. I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

Fred Brooks

#5. Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#6. Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

Soroosh Shahrivar

#7. Farsi Couplet:
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.


English Translation:
If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this

Amir Khusrau

#8. In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#9. The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The Choice of a purpose is more important than success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#11. We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#12. The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#13. It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

Saadi

#14. The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#15. If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#16. One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#17. Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#18. Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture.

Michael O'Donoghue

#19. In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#20. Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#21. Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#22. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#23. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Wasif Ali Wasif

#24. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Idries Shah

#25. When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#26. We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#27. Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#28. Believing passionately in the palpably not true ... is the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#29. You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - RAY BRADBURY

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#30. If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.

Liezi

#31. Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Bear Grylls

#32. When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#33. Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#34. He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#35. This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#36. Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.

Julie McElwain

#37. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#38. You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation

Milton Berle

#39. In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

Wasif Ali Wasif