Quote Archive

“The lower soul, Satan, and angels are not things external to you; rather they are you.”

Christian Lange, “Devil (Satan),” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, ed. Kate Fleet et. al. First published online, 2018: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_25991.

“The tranquility felt in the heart of the true human being is stronger than the chaotic mind of pretenders and the dishonest.”

Nahid Angha, The Breath of the Merciful, (Novato, CA, Uwaiysi Tariqat Publications, a division of the International Association of Sufism, 2025), 128.

“Who is the human being that You love and You care for?”

Shah Nazar Uwaiysi Seyyed Ali Kianfar, Inspiration: Lights of Stillness, comp. and ed. Saleh Arthur Scott (San Rafael, CA: International Association of Sufism Publications, 2021), 113.

“Word came:  how do you find me, in lieu of attraction? I said: like a field of flowers, on the hill of love expressed.”

J.T.P. de Bruijn, “Kaju Kermani,” in Encylopaedia Iranica, July 20, 2009. https://www.iranicaonline. org/articles/kvaju-kerman-poet-and-mystic.

“Look at the bridges within yourself and see where they lead.  You belong to that state.”

“Whoever you embrace will have everlasting life.  Those drawn to your thought will dwell in happy fields.”

Khwaju Kirmani, in David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, trans., Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2006), 12

“Being became the mirror of the Real and the Real appeared from it. With the eye of the spirit I gaze at the spirit in the mirror.”

Muhammad Taqi Mir, Shar-i-hal wa athar wa ash’ar-i shaykh Ruzbihan-I Baqli-yi Fasa’i-yi Shiraz (Shiraz: Intisharat-I Danishgah-I Pahlawi, 1975), 88; quoted in Murata, 2017, 96–97.

“Break the code of this line and know beyond doubt that:  All is nothing, nothing, All is He, all is He.”

Fakhruddin ‘Irāqī,  Divine Flashes.  Translated by William C. Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson, (New York:  Paulist Press, 1982), intro. 98.

“All love for someone else is but a whiff of Thy perfume: none else can be loved.”

Fakhruddin ‘Irāqī, Divine Flashes.  Translated by William C. Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson, (New York:  Paulist Press, 1982), 85.

“Do not be in haste! Follow in the footsteps of the Beloved of God and persevere in the worship of God. He will open unto you the gates to that which you seek!”