Sufi Love Quotes

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

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

I was you and never knew it.

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

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

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.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

In your light I learn how to love.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.