You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.
Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.
Reason is the illusion of reality.
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
My intuition never fails me. It is I who fail when I do not listen to it.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it’s apparent silence.
The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves.
The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one’s love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.