“Only the heart can shatter to a million pieces and still keep beating,” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.” — 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
“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
“Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with… — Idries Shah 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
“Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri 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
“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
“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
“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 idea of Sufism as a vaguely deist, New-Age-style philosophy with lots of poetry, alcohol and soft drugs is also immensely appealing… — Anatol Lieven Copy Share Image
“Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“In the value-framework of his age the verbal expression of Hallaj 's ecstatic state existed as a totality, and the meaning of… — Gilani Kamran Copy Share Image
“I am, for I am not (Sonnet 2539) I don't care what I am, I don't know what I am, I am,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sufism made use of the material provided by religious scholars that described knowledge as light. Going far beyond it, Sufi thinking was… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“A famous aphorism tells us, „The Sufi is the child of the moment“ (as-sufi ibn al-waqt). One of its meanings is that… — William C. Chittick Copy Share Image
“He says, "There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information…but knowledge does not come in that manner.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“One plods along in a state of amazement, sometimes smiling sometimes weeping.” — Farid ud-Din Attar Copy Share Image
“Sciences and theologies are my playthings, I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information…The key is the teacher.” — 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
“Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A Human Stucture Is Manuscript Of God's Love, Yet Man Is The One Who Ruin The Love. — NizamShahbaaz Copy Share Image
