Attar Quotes

“What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.”
― Idries Shah, The World Of The Sufi

“¿Qué es la humanidad? Sentir dolor ante las penas de tus vecinos, sentirse humillado ante la humillación de tus semejantes.”
― Idries Shah, The World Of The Sufi

“When a learned philosopher was in the throes of death, he said: Had I known how listening is superior to speaking, I would not have wasted my life preaching. Eloquent speech is perhaps as fine as gold but unspoken words are even more precious.”
― Attar, translated by Sholeh Wolpe

“Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry

“The drop of rain knows who and what it is as long as it remains a drop. When it falls back into the sea, its origin, it can no longer know.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry