Top 353 Sufi Mystic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

As someone who watched 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was 10 or 11, getting to be Miss Mystic Falls was very surreal for me.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

If people in Russia do not take the path of traditional, pure Sufi Islam, Russia will lose out. All the other denominations, like Wahhabism, are new inventions for our country - we have never had it, and we will never accept it.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.