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“اذا كانَ حَظّي الهَجرَ منكم، ولم يكن بِعادٌ، فذاكَ الهجرُ عندي هوَ الوَصْل

وما الصّدّ إلاّ الوُدّ، ما لم يكنْ قِلًى ، وأصعبُ شئٍ غيرَ إعراضكمْ سهلُ

وتعذيبكمْ عذبٌ لديَّ وجوركمْ عليَّ بما يقضي الهوى لكمُ عدلُ

أخذتمْ فؤادي وهوَ بعضي فما الَّذي يَضَرّكُمُ لو كانَ عِندَكَمُ الكُلّ”
― ابن الفارض

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“Allah
aku ingin menghampiri-Mu
bagai kapal pada pelabuhan
lindungi aku
bagai pelabuhan pada kapal”
― T. Alias Taib, Seberkas Kunci

“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: An Anthology of Important Papers

“Apa perlunya teriakan bagi yang mampu mendengar bisikan”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?”
― James Dillehay, Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success: A Sufi Book of a Student’s Experiences

“If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers