Shah Quotes
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
Rather than trying to control Anger, try deferring it, looking for an alternative way of handling...i bet its more easy as well as more effective.
Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word 'angaar' meaning Fire...however coincidentally both are equally destructive.
Anger is a super weapon given by god...with a catch...the more you use it the less effective it becomes.
Peace and anger cannot coexist.in fact there is a high negative corelation, the higher the anger lesser the peace and lesser the anger higher the peace...Zero anger is probably bliss.
Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger.
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
I miss you a lot. But what I miss even more is the person I become when I am with you. She is beautiful.
The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.
The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).
An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.
People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.
The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.
Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.
They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
