Quotes about Sufism

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Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by — Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in not h — Various
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. — Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Selfishness keeps man blind through life. — Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Bowl of Saki: Thoughts for Daily Contemplation from the Sayings and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps. — Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged m — Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy ci — Shamcher Bryn Beorse, Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977
Except Him, whatever understood,O Bedil~ love made me forget. — Bedil, Bedil: Selected Poems