Bahaudin Quotes

#1. You may have forgotten the Way:
But those who came before
Did not forget you.
Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

Idries Shah

#2. Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Idries Shah

#3. I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

Dan Fogelberg

#4. Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Idries Shah

#5. I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Mario Lemieux

#6. A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#8. Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

Thomas Merton

#9. We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades - Frances Brown

Seanan McGuire

#10. If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Idries Shah

#11. My name is Raghuram Rajan and I do what I do.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#12. When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

Idries Shah

#13. You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

Idries Shah

#14. Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

Idries Shah

#15. The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

Peter Mullan

#16. Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.

Sherman Alexie

#17. Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.

John Connolly

#18. Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Idries Shah

#19. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county

Chris Cleave

#20. I feel like I've got far more gay fans in America ... Maybe they caught wind that I have a cute Jewish brother who's gay.

Jessie Ware