Sufi Quotations

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.