Life Quote by Raj Doctor

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

— Idries Shah

People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were also men…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— 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

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

— Idries Shah

“My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap…

— Elif Shafak

“These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to…

— Idries Shah

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

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is the essence of all religions.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is experiential”

— Idries Shah

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

— Idries Shah

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