If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other… — Zain Hashmi 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
When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it… — Anne Waldman 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
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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