Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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“All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: The Dermis Probe
“The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real”
Source: The Sufis
“Your magic talisman is powerful: but are you a Solomon to make it work?”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
“Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
Source: The Sufis
“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”
Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Thinkers of the East
“Sufism is known by means of itself.”
Source: The Sufis
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.”
Source: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
“You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.”
Source: The Commanding Self
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Reflections
“Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.”
Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
“For every Pharoah there is a Moses.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Poverty: The result of marriage.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Thinkers of the East
“Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband”
Source: A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
Source: Thinkers of the East
Source: Thinkers of the East
Source: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
Source: Thinkers of the East
“In countries where there are no horses, donkeys are called horses.”
Source: Thinkers of the East
“If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.”
Source: Thinkers of the East
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
“I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: The Sufis
“Form is useful, but it is secondary.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
Source: Thinkers of the East
Source: Thinkers of the East
“Saying of the Prophet Struggle The holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Caravan of Dreams