Shah Quotes
If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.
Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.
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.
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.
A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.
Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.
Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?
Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.
What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
At End of my College Life I Must have to say: College Friends are One of Best Friends we ever had in Our Life
Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself
Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
Sufism, the "secret tradition, " is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.
He that is purified by love is pure
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.
Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.