Top Sufi Quotes

  • Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah

    Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.– Idries Shah

  • But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah

    But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.– Idries Shah

  • Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. – Idries Shah

    Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.– Idries Shah

  • Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah

    Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.– Idries Shah

  • The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. – Idries Shah

    The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.– Idries Shah

  • There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah

    There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.– Idries Shah

  • The Sufi is one who does what others do -“ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do -“ when it is indicated. – Idries Shah

    The Sufi is one who does what others do -“ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do -“ when it is indicated.– Idries Shah

  • Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah

    Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest.– Idries Shah

  • A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah

    A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.– Idries Shah

  • A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah

    A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.– Idries Shah