Sufi Quotes
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When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.
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The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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Dance when you're perfectly free.
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My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
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It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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To those who say "Sufism is apolitical" or "no politics," I respond: "No politics is politics." Look at the very old African Sufi tradition, the Asian Sufi tradition, or the North African Sufi tradition. Then you get it and understand what Sufism is all about wisdom, courage and resistance.
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves
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Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
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Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
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How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint.]
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If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
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There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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In your light I learn how to love.
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We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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