Sufis
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Night Hides A World But Reveals a Universe.
~ A Persian proverb
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
Hafiz
An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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.
Everything in existence points to God.
For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.
Hidden beneath your feet is a luminous stage where you are meant to rehearse your eternal dance.
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.
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.
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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.
There is NOTHING in your MIND
YOU have not INVITED IN.
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.
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.
~ Hafiz TRIPPING OVER JOY
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
God is within you; you are His instrument, and through you He expresses Himself to the external world.
The words 'within oneself' might confuse some people. They might think 'within oneself' means inside one's body; but that is because man is ignorant of himself. Man has a very poor idea of himself, and this keeps him in ignorance of his real self. If man only knew how large, how wide, how deep, how high is his being, he would think, act, and feel differently; but with all his width, depth, and height, if man is not conscious of them he is as small as he thinks himself to be. The essence of milk is butter, the essence of the flower is honey, the essence of grapes is wine, and the essence of life is wisdom.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, Bowl of Saki
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
This world is like a mountain.
Your echo depends on you.
If you scream good things,
the world will give it back.
If you scream bad things,
the world will give it back.
Even if someone says badly about you,
speak well about him.
Change your heart to change the world.
~ Shams Tabrizi
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
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