Top 64 Sufi Way Quotes
#1. The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah
#2. People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it's not Sufism.
Art Hochberg
#3. To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
Idries Shah
#4. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
Idries Shah
#5. When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#6. The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the
spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics
Karen Armstrong
#7. To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
Idries Shah
#8. Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.
Idries Shah
#9. Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
Idries Shah
#10. 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
#11. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.
Idries Shah
#12. 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
#13. This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).
Wasif Ali Wasif
#14. He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#16. Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
Idries Shah
#18. Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Idries Shah
#19. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#20. When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah
#21. I was you
and never knew it.
Rumi
#22. Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
Idries Shah
#23. As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.
Idries Shah
#24. 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
#25. You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Idries Shah
#26. I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
Idries Shah
#27. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
Idries Shah
#28. My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
Rumi
#30. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
Idries Shah
#31. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
Idries Shah
#32. The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
Idries Shah
#33. Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
Kamand Kojouri
#34. My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
Rajneesh
#35. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#36. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Rumi
#37. But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Idries Shah
#38. The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Holly Lynn Payne
#39. If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
Idries Shah
#40. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?
Reza Aslan
#41. The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#42. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations
Wasif Ali Wasif
#43. EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
Idries Shah
#44. But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.
Usman T. Malik
#45. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Idries Shah
#46. Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali
Idries Shah
#47. With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
Idries Shah
#48. A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
Rumi
#49. You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
Idries Shah
#50. A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
Idries Shah
#51. When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#52. The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.
Idries Shah
#53. It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.
Karen Armstrong
#54. A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him.
Rumi
#55. Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#56. Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.
Idries Shah
#57. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Idries Shah
#58. The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a transcendent view of the world, but don't be a chump.
Dan Harris
#59. Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#60. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
Idries Shah
#63. The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.
Idries Shah
#64. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.
Idries Shah
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