Sufis

This page was last updated on 12/19/22.

We must come to the point at which we have the freedom, the courage, to look at things as a baby does, without foreknowledge; to let whatever new reality apperception comes, let it come in and experience it fully and totally, without understanding it. For understanding is only classifying something by previously established patterns of thought.
~ Fazal Inayat-Khan

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
~ Hafiz

And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.
~ Hafiz

Everything in existence points to God..
~ Hafiz

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.
~ Hafiz

Hidden beneath your feet is a luminous stage where you are meant to rehearse your eternal dance.
~ Hafiz

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.
~ Hafiz

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
~ Hafiz

Now is the time for the world to know That every thought and action is sacred. This is the time For you to compute the impossibility That there is anything But Grace. Now is the season to know That everything you do Is sacred.
~ Hafiz

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
~ Hafiz

What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move That the saint is now continually Tripping over Joy And bursting out in Laughter And saying, “I Surrender!” Whereas, my dear, I am afraid you still think You have a thousand serious moves.
~ Hafez TRIPPING OVER JOY

I used to know my name. Now I don’t. I think a river understands me. For what does it call itself in that blessed moment when it starts emptying into the Infinite Luminous Sea, and opening every aspect of self wider than it ever thought possible? Each drop of itself now running to embrace and unite with a million new friends. And you were there, in my union with All, everyone who will ever see this page.
~ Hafiz

The soul is happy by nature; the soul is happiness itself.
~ Hazrat

All the disharmony of the world caused by religious differences is the result of man’s failure to understand that religion is “One”, truth is “One”, God is “One”; How “can” can there be two religions?
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Our success or failure depends upon the harmony or disharmony of our individual will with the Divine will.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

The natural initiation may come to a person at any time of his life. It does not come to everyone, but only to some. And for this initiation one need not go to a teacher; it comes when it is time for it to come. It comes in the form of a sudden change of outlook on life; a person feels that he has suddenly awakened to quite another world; although he remains in the same world it has become totally different to him.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (Three Aspects of Initiation) Sanatana Dharma

The purpose of life ... is that the only Being makes his oneness intelligible to Himself. He goes through different planes of evolution ... to make clear to Himself His oneness.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Until the heart is empty, it cannot receive the knowledge of God.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
~ Omar Khayyam

The truth is, when we thought we were looking for a good husband or a good wife or a good job or a lot of money or a lot of fame, we were really just looking for God. So it’s no wonder that we got disappointed when the husband, the wife, the job, the money or the fame didn’t fill our need—or our emptiness.
~ Yasmin Mogahed