Top Sufi Quotes

  • The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah

    The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.– Idries Shah

  • The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah

    The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.– Idries Shah

  • It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah

    It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.– Idries Shah

  • The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah

    The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.– Idries Shah