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
“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
If you call yourself a singer, then you must have the ability to sing anything, whether it's pop, classical, rock, sufi, or… — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
“He knows all my thoughts. He knows all I’ve ever done and He loves me all the same. What is our purpose,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.” — 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
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
“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
“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
The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
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
“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
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
How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Make me drunk. Make me drunk, Beloved. I crave your drink. Break these thought chains and tear these garments. I crave your… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“This continuos loop of Love Divine, like an Angel, sublime yet blind.” — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
