Dimensions Quote by Idries Shah

“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.”

— Idries Shah

“Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be universal and…

— Alan Lightman

“Sufism is the essence of all religions.”

— Idries Shah

“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is known by means of itself.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute…

— Paul Klee

“People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it’s not Sufism.”

— Art Hochberg

“Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.”

— Idries Shah

“There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.”

— Idries Shah

“It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion…

— John McTaggart