Best Sufis Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”

“Haste is from the Devil.”

“If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.”

“Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.”

“It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”

“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:”

“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”

“One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”

“Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.”

“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza”

“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”

“The mine is always bigger than the gem.”

“The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.”

“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.”

“Sayings of the Prophet”