Quotes About Unity

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar

El camino Sufi es a través del conocimiento y la práctica, no a través del intelecto y el habla. Como dice el príncipe Dara Shikoh en el poema persa: ¿Deseas ser incluido con los Señores de la Visión? Pasa (entonces) del discurso a la experiencia. Al decir "Unidad", no te transformas en un monoteísta; La boca no se vuelve dulce por la palabra "Azúcar".

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

Saying of the Prophet Love Do you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

Saying of the Prophet Women Women are the twin-halves of men.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

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.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Community: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN GURGANI: The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.