“ When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. Idries Shah
“ Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. Idries Shah
“ Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. Idries Shah
“ The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds Idries Shah
“ Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. Idries Shah
“ The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate gr… Hazrat Inayat Khan
“ When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration. Idries Shah
“ One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam,… Graham Fuller
“ THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili) Idries Shah
“ The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. Idries Shah
“ I'm born with wild horses in my head..With an imagination to conquer this world..I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage. Jasz Gill
