“Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth of my becoming lies, where no calendar keeps.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. — Bayazid Bastami 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
“Some ask for water, some ask for pani - somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi. I cannot explain this (nonduality) to your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am humbled by the grace of God. I am humbled by the beauty of this universe. Humbled by others' kindness. Humbled… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — 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
“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
“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Soar on to the King, the crown jewel, And then you'll truly see That nothing is as beautiful As His grand Majesty.” — Alexis York Lumbard Copy Share Image
“Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
