The most beautiful Sufi quotes for each Enneagram type

Sufism, the mystical worldview of Islam, is a source of wisdom. I collected quotes for each Enneagram type that can guide us on our individual paths of growth and spirituality. Whatever your religious orientation is, Sufism can teach us insights that are mind-boggling and heart-stirring. All we need is an open mind and an open heart.

One Sufi scholar, Hazrat Inayat Khan, described Sufism as “not a religion nor a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.”

Are you not sure about your Enneagram type? Look at which of these quotes feel most relevant to your personal growth. Quotes that you immediately agree with do not represent growth for you. Your path of growth is described by those quotes which at first makes you feel uncomfortable, but which deep in side you know to be true.

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Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 1

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.”

Rumi

“I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, joy and sorrow, heaven and hell. And in the end I realized that I am in everything and everything is in me.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

Rumi

“There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.”

Rumi

“Mistakes are the entrance of discovery.”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 2

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

Khalil Gibran

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth ‘you owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.”

Hafez

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”

Khalil Gibran

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”

Khalil Gibran

“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”

Idris Shah

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 3

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

Rumi

“Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.”

Shams Tabrizi

“True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one’s false self.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.”

Rumi

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 4

“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.”

Shams Tabrizi

“This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.”

Shams Tabrizi

“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!”

Kamand Kojouri

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

Rumi

“Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 5

“There are two modes of knowledge, through argument and experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts in order that the mind may remain at rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.”

Idris Shah

“There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

Khalil Gibran

“He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 6

“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.”

Shams Tabrizi

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Rumi

“Let go of thought and bring it not into your heart, for you are naked and thought is an icy wind. You think in order to escape from torment and suffering, but your thinking is torment’s fountainhead. Know that the bazaar of God’s Making is outside of thought.”

Rumi

“Do not look back, no one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, you will miss the moment.”

Rumi

“Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 7

“Enlightenment must come little by little — otherwise it would overwhelm.”

Idris Shah

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

Rumi

“Do not surrender your grief so quickly. Let it cut more deeply. Let it ferment and season you, as few human or divine ingredients can.”

Hafez

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

Rumi

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 8

“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

Rumi

“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.”

Ibn Arabi

“The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.”

Shams Tabrizi

“Anger is like a strong wind. It calms down after a while, but lots of branches are already broken.”

Rumi

“Let the waters calm down and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

Rumi

Sufi quotes for Enneagram type 9

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

Khalil Gibran

“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

Rumi

“I want to sing like the birds sing. Not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

Rumi