Guide Quote by Idries Shah

“The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.”

— Idries Shah

“It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well…

— Idries Shah

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

— Anonymous

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary…

— 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

“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds”

— Idries Shah

Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he…

— Idries Shah

“Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.”

— Idries Shah

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

— Idries Shah

“Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.”

— Idries Shah

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

— Idries Shah