Sufi Teacher Quotes

#1. A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation

Jack Kornfield

#2. Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Idries Shah

#3. But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

Donovan McNabb

#4. Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Idries Shah

#5. How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

Oscar Wilde

#6. If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Idries Shah

#7. Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

Idries Shah

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Dennis Rodman

#11. The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

Idries Shah

#12. Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

Donald Miller

#13. But there is no observable evidence and a few of the Big Bangists themselves even admit as much.

M.S. King

#14. You should never be too much involved ... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

Renata Scotto

#15. It's almost like that's the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian ... Or becoming a Negro for four years.

Josh Alan Friedman

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

Idries Shah

#17. One by one I drowned all the people I'd been.

Conor Oberst

#18. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

Idries Shah

#19. The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

Idries Shah

#20. A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.

Phil McGraw

#21. Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

Terry Pratchett

#22. She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. "Maybe I like picket fences." "I don't know, maybe it's the way I met you but assault rifles and picket fences seem juxtapositioned.

Denise Grover Swank

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

Idries Shah

#24. Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

Tom Verica

#25. Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage ... there's no telling him what's funny.

Harold Ramis