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• Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Doors, Being Thankful, Despair

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• The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

  Huston Smith

  Fire, Three, Way

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• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

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• Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, Religious, Lakes

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

  Rumi

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

  Idries Shah

  Believe, Sufism

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.36, Octagon Press Ltd

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Travel

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

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• The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

  Idries Shah

  Illumination, Intuition, Mind

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.129, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Destiny, Luxury

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

  Rumi

  Cutting, Agony, Skills

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• Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Two, World

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• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Practice, Ties

  "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation". Book by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, 1987.

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

  Rumi

  Wings, Use, Crawling

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• In your beauty, how to make poems.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Sufi Love

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

  Rumi

  Love, Stars, Laughing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, War

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Humans

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.

  Rumi

  Doors, Voice, Rooms

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• 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?

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Mystic, Knows

  Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil in Caucasia, Amir Abd al Qadir in Algeria, The Barelvi family in the modern province of India, today which is Pakistan, and you can go down the line.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  India, Algeria, Pakistan

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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