Teaching Sufism Quotes

#1. Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

Idries Shah

#2. They say the past always catches up with you, sooner or later. I prefer sooner, because by the time later rolls around, the past has picked up a lot of speed.

Dan Thompson

#3. SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
GURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Idries Shah

#4. Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Irina Tweedie

#5. Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.

Zarina Bibi

#6. Trivial," he echoed. "Perhaps. Then again, maybe it's all in the way you look at it

Robert Bloch

#7. The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

Idries Shah

#8. HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Idries Shah

#9. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Idries Shah

#10. Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy - then their religion is pseudo. Try to understand why you are unhappy.

Rajneesh

#11. He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

Shane Claiborne

#13. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

Idries Shah

#14. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

#15. Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Wes Fesler

#16. Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Idries Shah

#17. Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

Frank Sinatra

#18. As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

Idries Shah

#19. Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

Asif Kapadia

#20. Teaching:
One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
Saying of the Prophet

Idries Shah

#21. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Idries Shah

#22. , and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space until his error had been registered as a small dollop of fluid he extruded from his mistake zone, ...

Ben Marcus

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

Idries Shah