“Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“My Infinity is My Voice (Sonnet 2871) More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are… — Graham Fuller Copy Share Image
“If modern dervishes are no more than "traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for… — Peter Lamborn Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving… — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
“Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.” — Shamcher Bryn Beorse Copy Share Image
“Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Standing in Front of the Mirror of Eternity Dressed By True Existence Looking to Your Own Reality In the Ocean of Oneness” — Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani Copy Share Image
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“We Are All a Part of God "Recently I was sitting in an airport lounge full of people waiting to board a… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image