Wisdom Quotes - Page 37

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

Look for the answer inside your question.

Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf)

If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you might personally wish to do. If you overstep the mark, you will not deserve thanks, but blame from him and others and you will attract hostility, not friendship.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.