Top 31 Sufi Mysticism Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations
Wasif Ali Wasif
#3. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Idries Shah
#4. When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#5. Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#6. Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#7. When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#9. He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).
Wasif Ali Wasif
#16. Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#18. 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
#20. The Choice of a purpose is more important than success.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#21. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?
Tony Campolo
#22. 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
#23. The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#24. It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.
Saadi
#26. The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#27. If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).
Wasif Ali Wasif
#28. One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#30. 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
#31. Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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