“The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The dwellers in Paradise know that the first thing they must give up is their heart.” — Farid ud-Din Attar Copy Share Image
“Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your… — Idries Shah 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
“Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.” — 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
“Rain doesn't check bank balance, soil doesn't require DNA test - breath doesn't ask for proof of residence, medicine doesn't require faith… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the… — Zarina Bibi Copy Share Image
“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
“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
“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
“In the year of the sun was sun eclipse, the sun of piety, knowledge and divinity. The establisher of the path of… — Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse ra Copy Share Image
“The Revelation has vindicated the existence of God; and the light of the of the Luminous Form of Muhammad is enough and… — Gilani Kamran Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism, for example, as practiced by Suzuki, the excellent Japanese mystic, has nothing to do with the superstitious and predjudiced Buddhism… — Marcelo Ramos Motta Copy Share Image
“Diary of Dervish Advaitam (Naskaristana 2738) The other day I was reminiscing, which was the first inhumanity that lit the fuse of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
