“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Science speaks in equations. Sufism speaks in silence. This book lives in the space between.” — Neşe Sedetmen Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)” — Idries Shah 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
“Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout… — Dr. S.U.A.H Syed 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
“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“What binds Buddhism, Sufism, and Quaker practices together is a belief in our interconnectedness; profound respect for others; being guided by a… — Charlotte Kasl Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Be the Christian Naskar, Muslim Naskar, Black Naskar, Latin Naskar, Jew Naskar, Farsi Naskar, Sikh Naskar, Slavic Naskar, Nordic Naskar, Baltic Naskar,… — Abhijit Naskar 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
To those who say "Sufism is apolitical" or "no politics," I respond: "No politics is politics." Look at the very old African… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“In the year of the sun was sun eclipse, the sun of piety, knowledge and divinity. The establisher of the path of… — Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse ra Copy Share Image
