Lefke, Cyprus, 21 April 1922 You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s […]
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
SEMINARIO SUFI in Presenza con Sheikh Burhanuddin 6-8 MAGGIO Lago d’Orta (NOVARA) Scadenza tassativa per la Prenotazione, entro il: 21 APRILE “Là fuori, oltre a ciò che è giusto e sbagliato, esiste un campo immenso. Incontriamoci là.” Rumi Un’occasione per riunirci intorno al nostro Sheikh in presenza dopo tanto tempo ed […]
Don’t search for Heaven and Hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in Heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in Hell. Shams Tabrizi
The past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. […]
Body is purified by water, self (nafs) is purified by tears, intellect is purified by knowledge, and the soul with love. Imam Ali (as)
Are you fasting? During the Month of Ramadan, in a place near or far from here, a few young men saw an old woman sitting down eating a peach under a tree in a secluded place. They were disturbed by her open flouting of the fast, so they went to […]
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. St . Augustine
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God. Shams Tabriz
My servant never ceases to draw near to Me through supererogatory works until I love him. Then, when I love him, I am his hearing through which he hears, his sight through which he sees, his hand through which he grasps, and his foot through which he walks. Prophet Muhammad […]
A day of Silence Can be a pilgrimage in itself. A day of Silence Can help you listen To the Soul play Its marvelous lute and drum. Is not most talking A crazed defense of a crumbling fort? I thought we came here To surrender in Silence, To yield to […]
Fasting is a way to save on food. Vigil and prayer is a labor for old folks. Pilgrimage is an occasion for tourism. To distribute bread in alms is something for philanthropists. Fall in love: That is doing something! Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
The religion of God is Light. His Book is Light. His Messenger is Light. The abode which He has prepared for His intimate friends glows with Light. God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth; one of His name is Light. Ibn Qayyyim Al Jawziyya
Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? Shams Tabrizi
The best of your moments is that in which you are aware of your distress and thrown back upon your own helplessness…. it may be that in distress you will find benefits that you have been unable to find either in prayer or fasting. Shaykh Ibn Ata’illah Al Iskandari
Do not abandon the Invocation because you do not feel the Presence of God therein. For your forgetfulness of the Invocation of Him Is worse than your forgetfulness In the Invocation of Him. Perhaps he will take you from an Invocation With forgetfulness to one with vigilance, And from one […]
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. Shams Tabrizi
Sufism is about taste. Without tasting the sweetness of dhikr and knowledge, it is very difficult to continue on the Path. Sayyid Omar Abdullah