Sufi Dervish Quotes

#1. Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.

Dorothy Baker

#2. The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie

#3. Make every misadventure an adventure.

Alana Siegel

#4. You and your SoulMate are pioneers on the frontier of spiritual partnerships. You are the cusp of the next evolutionary wave. As architects of true SoulMate relationships, you are the Magellans of inner space.

Annette Vaillancourt

#5. A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

Bruce Chatwin

#6. I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows.

Beatrice Sparks

#7. ... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.

Coleman Barks

#8. Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

Idries Shah

#9. One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

Mike Judge

#10. God calls us to live lives of purity.

Billy Graham

#11. Mother lode of learning.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

Carl Van Vechten

#13. Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose

Monet Polny

#14. Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

Agnes Obel

#15. God's love for and protection of us are always consistent with his will for us - and his will for us is always consistent with what is best, not only for us, but also for a fallen world that he is always trying to rescue.

Craig Parshall