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A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan
— Idries Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
— Idries Shah
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
— Idries Shah
There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
— Andrew Matthews
Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition
— Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetMonkishness
No monkery in Islam. — Idries Shah
The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.
— Idries Shah
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
— 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
Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest.
— Idries Shah
It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
— Idries Shah
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
— Idries Shah
We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren't doing what we really want with our lives.
— James Dillehay
I was you and never knew it. — Rumi
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
— James Dillehay
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
— Mohsin Hamid
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
— Idries Shah
If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.
— James Dillehay
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
— Idries Shah
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
— Idries Shah
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information ... but knowledge does not come in that manner.
— Idries Shah
A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
— Idries Shah
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
— Idries Shah
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).
— Wasif Ali Wasif
I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
— Idries Shah
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).
— Wasif Ali Wasif
They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
— Idries Shah
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
— Idries Shah
I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.
— Idries Shah
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Give up a drop, become an ocean - Sufi saint Rumi. — Kashmira J. Gohil
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
— Idries Shah
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
— Idries Shah
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
— Idries Shah
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
— Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
— Idries Shah
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.
— Holly Lynn Payne
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
No practice exists in isolation.
— Idries Shah
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
— Idries Shah
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
— Idries Shah
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
— Idries Shah
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb — Idries Shah
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
— Idries Shah
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. - Sufi proverb
— Margaret Atwood
Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
— Idries Shah
Many Sufis are not guides.
— Idries Shah
The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.
— Idries Shah
Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
— Idries Shah
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
— Idries Shah
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
— Idries Shah
A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.
— Idries Shah
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
— 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
Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
— Idries Shah
What you seek is seeking you.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
— Idries Shah
We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Words have to die if humans are to live.
— Idries Shah