Books And Sufism Quotes & Sayings

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books. — Idries Shah

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? — Idries Shah

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years. — Sun Myung Moon

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 students wish to transcend books.
But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough. — Idries Shah

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. — Tony Hillerman

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks

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

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley

For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. — Tom Douglas

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,
And then you'll truly see
That nothing is as beautiful
As His grand Majesty. — Alexis York Lumbard