Naqshbandi 5 Quotes & Sayings

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge. — Idries Shah

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you. — Idries Shah

Set your mind first and your body will follow. — Toni Sorenson

We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space. — Julian Jaynes

Learn. Explore. Discover! — M.A. Simcox

It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness - that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast. — Henry James

None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons — Audrey Truschke

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion. — Idries Shah

I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another. — Anais Nin

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you. — Jodi Picoult

Opportunity makes a thief. — Francis Bacon

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society. — Idries Shah

You may have forgotten the Way:
But those who came before
Did not forget you.
Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara — Idries Shah

Reth laughed.
I punched him.
It hurt.
Me, not him, unfortunately. — Kiersten White

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or
such is the pleasure they experience
they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them. — Paulo Coelho

To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure. — A.E. Marling

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces — Kevin Jared Hosein

Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband — Idries Shah

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it. — Idries Shah