“Mevlana had his Shams, MLK had his Gandhi, Gandhi had his Tolstoy and I have my Gadadhar.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
“Aprender a aprender: Decir "sí" a la vía sufi es decir "no" a las fugas imaginadas.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Distance is but a myth, a sign of love's absence - Be drunk in love, and lo, all distance disappears.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information…but knowledge does not come in that manner.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
“Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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
“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information…The key is the teacher.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“THE DANCE OF ANGELS Suzy Kassem He spins and spins and spins To remove all three layers of him And with devout… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“In the most profound of Sufi teachings, we discover that the goal of Sufi practice is to create a kind of twin.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Sufism made use of the material provided by religious scholars that described knowledge as light. Going far beyond it, Sufi thinking was… — Franz Rosenthal 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
There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
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