If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Better have love without land, Than land without love. I came, I saw, I lost myself, Now all I am is love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“To be wounded in love, Is to be healed by love. To be broken in love, Is to awaken in love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
In fact many Hindu yogis and Sufis met, they became friends, they spoke about the knowledge and love of God; about all… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and… — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
“Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Chaap Tilak Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay Prem bhatee ka madhva… — Amir Khusrau Copy Share Image
My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call… — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“We are here in a wood of little beeches: And the leaves are like black lace Against a sky of nacre. One… — Frederic Manning Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
