Naqshbandi 5 Quotes

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

Idries Shah

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

Idries Shah

#3. Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

Idries Shah

#4. giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#6. I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

Mike Shinoda

#7. 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

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

Idries Shah

#9. Without patience and interest, one will only have access to immediate pleasures - which are good, but much lower in quality than the pleasures gained over time.

Olivier Magny

#10. He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

William Faulkner

#11. Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Marilyn Vos Savant

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

Idries Shah

#13. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons

Audrey Truschke

#14. I just don't feel like me anymore,
&
it's not fair to answer the phone
when
the person they're looking for is
no longer
in this body, when the girl they
all used
to love looks more wolf than girl
now.

Darshana Suresh

#15. For me, what works best is to try to eat healthy and not worry about the scale.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#16. 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