Sufis Quotes
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![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Caravan of Dreams
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Caravan of Dreams
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”
― Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”
― Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
![Bulleh Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358247256i/6648402._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Not a believer in the mosque am I,
Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.
I am not the pure amongst the impure,
I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not in the holy books am I,
Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine,
Nor do I live in a drunken haze,
Nor in sleep or waking known.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.
I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.
Not of water nor of land,
Nor am I in air or fire to be found.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not an Arab nor Lahori,
Not a Hindi or Nagouri,
Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,
Not a Buddhist or a Christian.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,
I am not of Eve and Adam.
Neither still nor moving on,
I have not chosen my own name!
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
From first to last, I searched myself.
None other did I succeed in knowing.
Not some great thinker am I.
Who is standing in my shoes, alone?
Bulleh, I know not who I am.”
―
Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.
I am not the pure amongst the impure,
I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not in the holy books am I,
Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine,
Nor do I live in a drunken haze,
Nor in sleep or waking known.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.
I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.
Not of water nor of land,
Nor am I in air or fire to be found.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Not an Arab nor Lahori,
Not a Hindi or Nagouri,
Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,
Not a Buddhist or a Christian.
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,
I am not of Eve and Adam.
Neither still nor moving on,
I have not chosen my own name!
Bulleh, I know not who I am.
From first to last, I searched myself.
None other did I succeed in knowing.
Not some great thinker am I.
Who is standing in my shoes, alone?
Bulleh, I know not who I am.”
―
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”
― The Sufis
― The Sufis
![Tahir Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1385498111i/7102._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
― In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
― In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”
― Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
― Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.”
― Caravan of Dreams
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.”
― Caravan of Dreams
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:
Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”
― The Way of the Sufi
Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”
― The Way of the Sufi
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.”
― Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
― Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”
― Thinkers of the East
― Thinkers of the East
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”
― The Sufis
― The Sufis
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.”
― Caravan of Dreams
― Caravan of Dreams
![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.”
― The Sufis
― The Sufis
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth.
We have surveyed it well.
There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.
Anwar-i-Suhaili”
―
We have surveyed it well.
There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.
Anwar-i-Suhaili”
―
![Laurence Galian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1594352009i/246355._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and to Sufis who practice the forty-day halvet (retreat), in which the Shaman would enter a cave, have an experience of dying, explore the spiritual realms, and then is reborn as the Initiate or Master (just as the bear is reborn each spring as it “wakes up” and leaves its cave).”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
![Soroosh Shahrivar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1681560050i/14115870._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“As for being a Sufi, I think every Iranian by birth is born one. It is in our blood.”
― Tajrish
― Tajrish
![Abhijit Naskar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535400350i/13720247._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Love is the only nonvolatile currency in the world.”
― Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
― Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“There is a pseudo-advertisement in American folklore: ''Have gun, will travel''.
A more general, unspoken, motto of the human race is:
''Have pessimism, laziness, superficiality: will use them''.
And if you have these things, be sure of another fact: just as surely as other people will use your possessions if they can, they will use you through your proclivities, because they certainly can'.”
―
A more general, unspoken, motto of the human race is:
''Have pessimism, laziness, superficiality: will use them''.
And if you have these things, be sure of another fact: just as surely as other people will use your possessions if they can, they will use you through your proclivities, because they certainly can'.”
―
![Laurence Galian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1594352009i/246355._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“All praise is due to Allah. Allah is the One Reality, and that Reality is Love. We humans are love returning to Love. Sufis have taught great wisdom to humanity regarding the clearest ways to make that “return.” The finest way is through remembering (dhikr) Allah at all times, and knowing that Allah alone exists.”
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![Laurence Galian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1594352009i/246355._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Bees are a recurring symbol of the Merovingians and the humming or buzzing sound of bees is likened to supersensible “sounds” experienced by many Sufis as they enter spirit realms.”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Let your self be annihilated in the fire of love, For in that fire, all selves are burned away. When the self has vanished, you will see The Beloved everywhere, in every face”
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![Idries Shah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518192418i/32851._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“Man has less than he suspects of: time, friends, hopes, qualities.
Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams”
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Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams”
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“As in a harmonised group, once this ‘electronic’ link is established between people, a new person can be introduced, and as long as he or she can orientate him-or-herself correctly to the activity, what has taken many years for the group to learn can be picked up very quickly. For this to be possible it is essential to avoid hierarchies developing, because the attitude of feeling more important as a result of having been around longer makes this transmission impossible. (The Steganographer 6)”
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