27+ Helpful Sufi Wisdom Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
— Rumi

Helpful Sufi Wisdom quotations

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.

Sufi wisdom quote It hurts because it matters. — It hurts because it matters.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Sufi wisdom quote Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still. — Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

Sufi wisdom quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you. — How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

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

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Sufi wisdom quote A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for. — A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Sufi wisdom quote Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself. — Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.

If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

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

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Sufi wisdom quote Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose. — Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

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

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Sufi wisdom quote Silence is better than bullshit. — Silence is better than bullshit.

My heart is so small it's almost invisible.

How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Sufi wisdom quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sad — Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

Sufi wisdom quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. — A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom;

they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

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.