Sufi Quotes

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Idries Shah
“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“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, The Way of the Sufi

“Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.”
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Elif Shafak
“إن الطريق إلى الحقيقة يمر من القلب، لا من الرأس
فاجعل قلبك، لا عقلك، دليلك الرئيسي. واجه، تحدّ، وتغلب في نهاية المطاف على "النفس" بقلبك. إن معرفتك بنفسك ستقودك إلى معرفة الله.”
Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
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Idries Shah
“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

James Dillehay
“We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.”
James Dillehay, Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success: A Sufi Book of a Student’s Experiences

Idries Shah
“Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.”
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God

James Dillehay
“Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.”
James Dillehay, Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success: A Sufi Book of a Student’s Experiences

Eric Micha'el Leventhal
“I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.”
Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Holly Lynn Payne
“The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.”
Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

Holly Lynn Payne
“No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.”
Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

James Dillehay
“The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength.”
James Dillehay, Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success: A Sufi Book of a Student’s Experiences

Idries Shah
“You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“Una barba mejor que la tuya.
“Todos los verdaderos devotos llevan barba,” dijo el Imán a su audiencia. “Muéstrenme una barba espesa y brillante, y yo les mostraré a un verdadero creyente!” “Mi cabra tiene una barba mucho más tupida y larga que la tuya,” contestó Nasrudín. “¿Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?”.”
Idries Shah

Idries Shah
“Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino.

Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair”
Idries Shah

Idries Shah
“Remedio
Tu medicina está dentro de ti, y tú no la ves. Tu enfermedad viene de ti mismo, y tú no te das cuenta.

Hazrat Ali”
Idries Shah, El camino del Sufi

Idries Shah
“La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.”
Idries Shah, El buscador de la verdad

Idries Shah
“La institución de la enseñanza existe por esta razón: el aprendiz debe aprender a aprender.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en tales condiciones ella no podrá encontrar ninguna expresión.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“Has recorrido un largo camino, y no lo sabes. Tienes un largo camino por recorrer, y sí sabes lo que eso significa.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“Si tu deseo de lo 'bueno' está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“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, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah
“Copiar una virtud de otro es más una copia que una virtud. Trata de aprender sobre qué se basa tal virtud.”
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way