“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.” — Fazal Inayat-Khan Copy Share Image
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.” — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Sufi sebenar berpakaian biasa bangsanya, mengikut Nabi Pada zaman ini akan berseluar kemeja, sederhana sekali Namun dada berisi hikmah ladunni bukan hasil… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different… — Deepa Kumar Copy Share Image
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked… For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I remembered the malangs of Shah Jamal, the dirty, shirtless renouncers with ratty beards and dreads and bare chests covered in necklaces… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“Names Behind Naskar (Sonnet) The world often wonders about my influences, in doing so it often cooks up fake inspiration. So I… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
