“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — 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
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I am what happens when a monk scientist goes full-on godmode to establish a planetary, integrated, anti-racist, anti-phobic, anti-misogynist, anti-colonial, anti-military, anti-nationalist… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“My current comes from spinning particles, my compass points to where no map can lead - I won't fit inside insect colonies… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers, So your surroundings become a garden. Don't sow thorns; for they… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
“Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have… — Abhijit Naskar 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 way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and… — Idries Shah 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
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
“From my insufficiency to my perfection, and from my deviation to my equilibrium From my sublimity to my beauty, and from my… — Ibn Arabi 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
“I am for I think not (Sonnet 2674) Every country needs just one person to embody the best of humanity - but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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