“The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi 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
“Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.” — Idries Shah 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
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
“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
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
Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so… — Kamand Kojouri 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
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf 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
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
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
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
“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
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“How can you be a lover of love and not be a lover of God? It is impossible.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.” — Idries Shah 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
“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
