Travelling the Path of Love Quotes

“The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself.

(Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-l-khayr)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Love has come and it flows like blood beneath my skin, through my veins.
It has emptied me of my self and filled me with the Beloved.
The Beloved has penetrated every cell of my body.
Of myself there remains only a name, everything else is Him.
(Rumi)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“It is burning of the heart I want; this burning which is everything,
More precious than a worldly empire, because it calls God secretly, in the night.
(Rumi)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“By means of the Divine Lights the heart becomes polished so that it shines like a polished mirror. When it becomes a mirror one can see in it the reflection of all existing things and the reflection of the Kingdom of God as they really are . When one sees the Glory and Majesty of God in His Realm then all the lights become one light and the chest becomes full with this shining light. He is like a
man who observes his reflection in a mirror and sees in it at the same time the reflection of all that is before and behind him. Now when a ray of sun hits the mirror the whole house becomes flooded with light from the meeting of these two lights: the light of the sun-ray and the light of the mirror. Similarly the heart: when it is polished and shining it beholds the Realm of Divine Glory and the
Divine Glory becomes revealed to it. –  Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Sufis describe the heart as a mirror which the wayfarer polishes and polishes with aspiration and
inner work, until no imperfection remains. Then the mirror of the heart can reflect the true light of
the Beloved.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. – Abu Said ibn Abi al-Khair ”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“When you seek God, seek Him in your heart. – Yunus Emre”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Your journey is towards your homeland. Remember you are travelling from the world of appearances to the world of Reality. – Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home. – Hadith of the Prophet”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“The inner reality of love means that you give all of yourself to the One until nothing remains of you for you.
(Anonymous)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“I know nothing, I understand nothing, I am unaware of myself. I am in love, but with whom I do not know. My heart is at the same time both full and empty of love.
(Attar)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“By means of the Divine Lights the heart becomes polished so that it shines like a polished mirror. When it becomes a mirror one can see in it the reflection of all existing things and the reflection of the Kingdom of God as they really are . When one sees the Glory and Majesty of God in His Realm then all the lights become one light and the chest becomes full with this shining light. He is like a man who observes his reflection in a mirror and sees in it at the same time the reflection of all that is before and behind him. Now when a ray of sun hits the mirror the whole house becomes flooded with light from the meeting of these two lights: the light of the sun-ray and the light of the mirror. Similarly the heart: when it is polished and shining it beholds the Realm of Divine Glory and the Divine Glory becomes revealed to it. – Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“God placed within the heart the knowledge of Him, and so the heart became lit by God’s Light. By this light He gave the heart eyes to see. Then God spoke in a parable and said, “Compared to a niche wherein is a lamp.” The lamp of the Divine Light is in the hearts of those who believe in the Oneness of God. – Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust;
and the polish of the heart is the invocation of Allâh. – Hadith of the Prophet”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Four thousand years before God created these bodies, He created the souls and kept them beside Himself and shed a light upon them. He knew what quantity each soul received and He showed favor to each in proportion to its illumination. The souls remained all that time in light, until they became fully nourished. Those who in this world live in joy and agreement with one another must have been akin to one another in that place. Here they love one another and are called the friends of God, and they are brothers who love one another for God’s sake. These souls know one another by smell, like horses. – Sheikh Abu-Said Abul-Khayr ”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“One of the attributes of the saint is that he has no fear, for fear is anticipating some disagreeable event that might come or expecting that something beloved might pass away in the future. The saint is concerned only with the present moment. He has no future to fear.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Strive to become the true human being:
one who knows love, one who knows pain.
Be full, be humble, be utterly silent,
be the bowl of wine passed from hand to hand.
(Al-Ansari)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Pain and happiness have the same shape in this world: You may call the rose an open heart, or a broken heart.
(Dard)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

“Everything in the world of existence has an end and a goal. The end is maturity and the goal is freedom. For example, fruit grows on the tree until it is ripe and then falls. The ripened fruit represents maturity, and the fallen fruit, freedom.
The final goal is returning to one’s origin. Everything which reaches its origin has reached its goal. A farmer sows grain in the ground and tends it. It begins to grow, eventually seeds, and again becomes grain. It has returned to its original form. The circle is complete. Completing the circle of existence is freedom.

(Nasafi)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters