Sufi Love Quotes

#1. He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Idries Shah

#2. In your beauty, how to make poems.

Rumi

#3. I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

Emma Thompson

#4. 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

#5. Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#6. I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#7. In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

Katy Perry

#8. Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?

Donna Goddard

#9. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

Rumi

#10. I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#11. He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#12. Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.

Marcel Proust

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

Wasif Ali Wasif

#14. It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.

Ron Kaufman

#15. The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Bayazid Bastami

#16. We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.

Kamand Kojouri

#17. If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Morrie Schwartz.

#18. 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

#19. 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.

Idries Shah

#20. 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

#21. Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Stanislaw Lem

#22. Holy shit, where did you learn that? Fuck. Don't answer. I don't want to know. I prefer to think you were born with that talent.

J. Lynn

#23. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Idries Shah

#24. I was you
and never knew it.

Rumi

#25. To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

Anne Michaels

#26. Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Joe Torre

#27. People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck

#28. I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.

Joe Calzaghe

#29. Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Harold Bloom

#30. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

Reza Aslan

#31. Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#32. Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

Katie Hopkins

#33. No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Holly Lynn Payne

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

Soroosh Shahrivar

#35. I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.

Simon Pegg

#36. A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Idries Shah

#37. I want people to learn what democracy means.

Jack Ma

#38. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

Craig Thompson