“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Presence and Absence A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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
“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in… — The Hand of Poetry Five Mystic Poets of Persia Translations from the Poems of Sanai Attar Rumi Saadi Copy Share Image
“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
