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sufi proverb
Kannon
NAMU AMIDA BUTSUAch-To Veteran
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
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I knew I got the fishy version ...
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For those theistically inclined Rumi is a great source and fish sauce...
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
― Jalaluddin Rumi
I love sufi quotes.
Especially those that do not mention a god, since I am an atheist...
'Polytheists, monotheists, atheists, fire and idol worshippers, all are in my fold / The only condition is to have a heart of gold'
Fariduddin Attar, the first atheistic Sufi
Buddha Akbar
I just found 'Rumi' a few weeks back...
and
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I did not know he was missing?
I hear he died but only physically. 
Personally I find 'just Buddhism' a little dry and heart stilted. It is why I welcome the mystics, Lovers and Ruminants to chew the dharma with ...
Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises.
Rumi
I'll join ...
oh and welcome @elcra1go 
The Guest House
"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond."
~Rumi~
"Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else."
Hafiz
Rumi speaking on emptiness, Hafiz speaking on māyā, Buddha speaking on suffering....hummm....crazy to think they're all pointing at the same moon
Looking For Love (Or "Not Twoness")
"A strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird
which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?"
~Rumi~
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
Hafiz
The way to You
lies clearly in my heart
and cannot be seen or known to the mind.
As my words turn to silence,
Your sweetness surrounds me.
Hakim Sanai
And if, my friend, you ask me the way,
I'll tell you plainly, it is this:
to turn your face toward the world of life,
and turn your back on rank and reputation;
and, spurning outward prosperity, to bend
your back double in his service;
to part company with those who deal in words,
and take your place in the presence of the wordless.
Hakim Sanai
Melt yourself down in this search:
venture your life and your soul
in the path of sincerity;
strive to pass from nothingness to being,
and make yourself drunk with the wine of God.
Hakim Sanai
My friend, everything existing
exists through him;
your own existence is a mere pretence.
No more nonsense! Lose yourself,
and the hell of your heart becomes a heaven.
Lose yourself, and anything can be accomplished.
Your selfishness is an untrained colt.
Hakim Sanai
Rumi once said, “Of Sufi poetry, Attar is its soul and Sanai its two eyes, they came before me” when describing the great influences on his work. Sanai wrote the famous volume The Walled Garden Of Truth.
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/S/SanaiHakim/index.html
Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that makes the flowers grow; not thunder.
Rumi.
"Bow to the essence in a human being.
Do not be content with judging people good and bad.
Grow out of that."
(Rumi)
One day
the sun admitted,
“I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The infinite Incandescence
That had cast my brilliant image!”
“I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!”
Hafiz
" I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in the dark
The Astonishing Light
Of your own being"
~Hafiz~
That's from one of my favorite Hafiz poems, @Shoshin
It appears we were riding the same wave for a moment!
"I Hear God Laughing"
The part that I re-posted says so much about one's Buddha Nature .... "The Astonishing Light of your own being"
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
Guatama
All things are but masks at God's beck and call,
They are symbols that instruct us that God is all.
"I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:"
Wot? No one told me ...oh wait, they did. All the time ...
One of the important concepts in Sufism is 'being heedless', which corresponds to being unmindful in Dharma. Thus remembrance is being mindful.
There are many concepts in Sufism that have been influenced by Buddhist Dharma.
... and now back to the quotes ...
Oh no, I am confused, dear @lobster !
I equate being heedless with recklessness. Does Sufism promote heedlessness/being reckless?
Please pardon my ignorance!
Being heedless is reckless. Being heedless is a form of ignorance or in Sufism, forgetting. In other words most Moslems/people are constantly distracted by life. This is why prayer time throughout the day is an observance.
So being heedless/unmindful/ignorant is the natural condition of the ordinary mind. The dervish attempts to stay aware or centered in Allah, the Buddhist with no need for God, centers awareness in breath, the present moment etc.
I talk all night long with a dream image
About the tales of my pain;
Thus my sleeplessness
Comes from these tales.
Amir Khusraw
http://www.chishti.ru/sufi_death.htm
Oh yea! That sounds more like what I had in mind, thank you for clarifying. Will definitely check out that link.