“There are as many ways to God
as human beings, as many as the breaths of the
children of men.”
Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by,
with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you
sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the
desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home.
The Prophet Muhammad
Sufism is staying at the lover’s door even when you are
driven away.
RÛDHBÂRÎ
I saw my Lord in my dreams and I asked, “How am I to
find You?” He replied, “Leave yourself and come!”
BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ
When truth has taken hold of a heart she empties it of
all but Herself.
AL-HALLÂJ
Solitude in the crowd: in all your outward activity
remain inwardly free. Learn not to identify with anything
whatsoever.
‘ABD’L-KHÂLIQ GHIJDUWÂNÎ
It is a grave error for anyone to imagine he will attain
anything or that anything will be revealed to him of the
Path without persistent striving on his part.
ABÛ ‘UTHMÂN AL-HÎRÎ
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking,
yet only seekers find it.
BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ
Whoever believes he can reach God by his own efforts
toils in vain; whoever believes he can reach God without
effort is merely a traveller on the road of intent.
ABÛ SA‘ÎD AL-KHARRÂZ
And if He closes before you all the ways and passes,
He will show you a hidden way which nobody knows.
RÛMÎ
Dhû-l-Nûn was asked, “What is the end of the mystic?”
He answered, “When he is as he was where he was
before he was.”
DHÛ-L-NÛN
Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of
tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would
be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not
travel alone on the Path.
RÛMÎ
The moment you are united with the master, it
becomes effortless.
BHAI SAHIB
The source of my grief and loneliness is deep in
my breast.
This is a disease no doctor can cure.
Only union with the Friend can cure it.
RÂBI‘A
Oh Lord, nourish me not with love but with the desire
for love.
IBN ‘ARABÎ
Spiritual need is a living and luminous fire placed by
God in the breasts of His servants that their “self ” (nafs, or
ego) may be burned; and when it has been burned this fire
becomes the fire of “longing” (shawq) which never dies,
neither in this world nor in the next.
ABÛ SA‘ÎD IBN ABÎ-L-KHAYR
Know that you are the veil which conceals yourself
from you. Know also that you cannot reach God through
yourself, but that you reach Him through Him. The reason
is that when God vouchsafes the vision of reaching Him,
He calls upon you to seek after Him and you do.
AL-JUNAYD
among the ones posted today 
i like number 3 and 9
There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust;
and the polish of the heart is the invocation of Allâh.
The prophet
The breath that does not repeat the name of God is a
wasted breath.
KABÎR