Golden Sufi Quotes

#1. To reclaim our dignity and role as guardians of the planet will not be easy. But we can pray for the intercession of His mercy, knowing, according to an ancient promise, that "His mercy is greater than His justice." There is a real reason that the ancients understood that He is a wrathful God, and made penance and sacrifice to placate Him. We may think that our science and civilization can protect us from this primal power, but the symbol of the dragon as the power of the earth is not without meaning. We have little understanding of the archetypal forces that underlie our surface lives, and of how they are all interconnected and can manifest the will of God. We can no longer afford to be ignorant or think that we can abuse the world as long as we want. #Quote by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#2. What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth.
Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price,
You who are so valuable in God's eyes.
(Rumi) #Quote by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#3. Nothing is excluded and the unique nature of every aspect of creation is celebrated. This is how oneness works when it is not just a concept but a living presence. Many patterns and attachments that we think are essential to life will fall away, just as our present structures of power will become redundant. And the wonder of this change is that it need not be gradual, because it belongs to the now. Any real change is always a miracle - it happens through the grace of God. #Quote by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#4. The smoke! The golden smoke!
His robe whipped upward, turning him until his face was directed downward into the abyss. With his gaze on the depths, he recognized a maelstrom of boiling rapids there, the mirror of his life-precipitous currents and plunges, all movement gathering up all substance. Leto's words wound through his mind on a path of golden smoke: "Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve." Moneo fell freely then in the ecstasy of awareness. The universe opened for him like clear glass, everything flowing in a no Time. #Quote by Frank Herbert

#5. Every honest miller has a golden thumb. #Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

#6. The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * * #Quote by Idries Shah

#7. Ovid tells us, in his Metamorphoses, that the young girls who were gathering flowers with Proserpina that fatal day were turned into the Sirens - the bird-bodied golden-feathered singers with female faces of the Homeric tradition - and then went wandering about over land and sea, crying out in search of their vanished playmate. #Quote by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#8. A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves! #Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right. #Quote by Christie Golden

#10. There was a single
golden hair on the pillow, curled in on itself as if asleep. Simon
picked it up carefully, then lay down still holding it, his head in its
place. The bed was cold, but it still smelled warm, like Matt. #Quote by J.L. Merrow

#11. How can I explain to you, my happiness, my golden wonderful happiness, how much I am all yours - with all my memories, poems, outbursts, inner whirlwinds? Or explain that I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it - and can't recall a single trifle I've lived through without regret - so sharp! - that we haven't lived through it together - whether it's the most, the most personal, intransmissible - or only some sunset or other at the bend of a road - you see what I mean, my happiness?

And I know: I can't tell you anything in words - and when I do on the phone then it comes out completely wrong. Because with you one needs to talk wonderfully, the way we talk with people long gone… in terms of purity and lightness and spiritual precision… You can be bruised by an ugly diminutive - because you are so absolutely resonant - like seawater, my lovely.

I swear - and the inkblot has nothing to do with it - I swear by all that's dear to me, all I believe in - I swear that I have never loved before as I love you, - with such tenderness - to the point of tears - and with such a sense of radiance. #Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

#12. We were about a mile from school, on a path in the park, when Chirag reached down and took off his shoes, tossing them into the trees beside us.

"What are you doing?" I shouted in between breaths. Step, breath. Step, breath. He was a few yards ahead of me. I took advantage of his pause to pass him; I wasn't about to let him beat me.

"There's a tribe of Indians in Mexico who are the best runners in the world," he shouted. "They run barefoot for miles and miles and never break a sweat."

"You're not that kind of Indian," I shouted back, and Chirag laughed, his golden skin shimmering beneath his sweat.

"You should try it, too!"

"No way!" I replied without turning around to face him. "The ground is filthy. There could be glass or splinters or something."

"Aw, come on, Maisie," he cooed, coming up on my left side and getting a few steps ahead of me once more. "I dare you. #Quote by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

#13. Behind every successful flight, lies the will, full of thrust, against the wind; the will to win. #Quote by Vikrmn

#14. He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence. #Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

#15. The Frog was the only one who could retrieve the golden ball because he was the only one who could descend into the well. He was the only one who could descend into the well because the art of diving was still unknown in Europe at this time. The art of diving was still unknown in Europe because it had not yet been imported from India. Therefore the Frog was the only one who could retrieve the golden ball. Q.E.D. #Quote by Stephen Mitchell

#16. And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal! #Quote by Christopher Golden

#17. A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age. #Quote by Robert Benchley

#18. Replacing rudeness and impatience with the Golden Rule may not change the world, but it will change your world and your relationships. #Quote by Steve Shallenberger

#19. As he left Chinatown behind, Alan thought of the woman he'd seen on the wharf the other day, the golden splendor of her gown, her glossy hair and the turbulent emotion in her eyes. He wondered what she was doing right now and if she'd found happiness in her new home. #Quote by Bonnie Dee

#20. In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt.
"It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered.
"What?" Hazel asked.
"The master bolt," Percy said.
"What are you talking about?"
"I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess. #Quote by Rick Riordan

#21. Gold all is not that doth golden seem. #Quote by Edmund Spenser

#22. You have learnt so much
And read a thousand books.
Have you ever read your Self?
You have gone to mosques and temples.
Have you ever visited your soul?
You are busy fighting Satan.
Have you ever fought your
Ill intentions?
You have reached into the skies,
But you have failed to reach
What's in your heart! #Quote by Bulleh Shah

#23. The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross. #Quote by Lesslie Newbigin

#24. No matter what the future has in store for us, I will always be glad that you opened the door to your life and let me love you. #Quote by Kim Golden

#25. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. #Quote by Petrarch

#26. Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. #Quote by John Mason Neale

#27. Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy. #Quote by John Manning

#28. The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings. #Quote by George Monbiot

#29. My new and improved Golden Rule: Dom unto others as you would have God Dom unto you. #Quote by Michael Makai

#30. Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die!"

- Invitation to a Voyage #Quote by Charles Baudelaire

#31. I know ... that's why you're down here and not enjoying some picnic in a golden meadow amongst the harps and puffy clouds.
Lucifer from Angela's Coven #Quote by Bruce Jenvey

#32. Emerald leaves crossed our paths
with veracity marked in golden drafts,
somewhere deep amid the pending vapours
of humility and dance,
did we dance across the skies? #Quote by Phen Weston

#33. On August 2, Germany and Turkey had signed a defensive alliance against Russia. The Turks were reluctant, however, to take the actual step into war and the German embassy in Constantinople was recommending application of pressure on the grand vizier and his Cabinet. The sight of Goeben anchored off the Golden Horn was thought likely to offer formidable persuasion. #Quote by Robert K. Massie

#34. Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species. #Quote by Jean Craighead George

#35. I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by the very thoughts of silence. I'm a gray green fallow leaf on trees and abandoned on the streets, a never-ending spring season and an eternal autumn. I'm the golden of the sun and the silver of the moon, the fog of dawn and the amber of dusk. I'm the white and the red flag , the obedient and the rebel. I am the coward in the brave, and the child in the man. I am, but a writer. #Quote by Nema Al-Araby

#36. Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. #Quote by Samuel Smiles

#37. No, it was you losing the little golden sun killed me, Shadow, killed me dead as sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end." Shadow #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#38. For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times. #Quote by Whit Stillman

#39. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. #Quote by Cato The Elder