Sufi Quotes

1. Bring all of yourself to his door:
   bring only a part
   and you've brought nothing at all. - Hakim Sanai
    
2. I am a bird of the heavenly garden
   I belong not to the earthly sphere.
   They have made for two or three days
   A cage of my body. - Rumi
    
3. O Beloved, there is no room left in my heart
   For anything but You! - Hafiz
    
4. Sweep with your soul,
   before your beloved's door.
   Only then will you become her lover. - Baba Aziz
    
5. There are as many paths to God as there are souls on Earth. - Hadith
    
6. If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!
   If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
   Lock me out of Paradise.
   But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
   Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.  - Rabia
    
7. Between me and You, there is only me.
   Take away the me, so only You remain. - Hallaj
    
8. Give me ecstasy, give me naked wonder, O my Creator!
   Give birth to the Beloved in me, and let this lover die.
   Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. - Rumi