Sufi Quotes

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

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

Dance when you're perfectly free.

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

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?

In your beauty, how to make poems.

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

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

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?

If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

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.

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