Sufi Path Quotes

#1. On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.

Elif Shafak

#2. In a recent attack ad, the NRA claims that President Obama cares about his own children more than he cares about other children. In response, President Obama was like, 'Yeah, that's how families work.'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

Idries Shah

#4. So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.

Roald Dahl

#5. Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?

Donna Goddard

#6. If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Idries Shah

#7. Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Neal Ascherson

#8. 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

#9. Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

#10. Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

Soroosh Shahrivar

#11. I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.

John Mulaney

#12. The Hack is the action you take to expose, jam, complicate, disrupt, or otherwise point out the crack to the organization.

Jason Little

#13. I'm very interested in everything. The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels.

Sylvia Plath

#14. The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

Idries Shah

#15. We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Shigeru Yoshida

#16. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Idries Shah

#17. I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

Pat Paulsen