Naqshbandi 7 Quotes & Sayings

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something. — Christopher Moore

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

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story. — Rachel Weisz

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

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion - they're the strongest — Natalie Portman

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

[God] is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it. — Erastus Snow

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

I just wanna belong, Bailey," he said softly. "I wanna belong in your world with your friends and your hobbies and your gardens. That's all. I wanna know everything about you, even if I have to bully it out of you. Put you on the spot. Make you uncomfortable. 'Cause I can't get enough of you. — S. Walden

I never knew. Didn't know everythin could be fine one moment an then the next moment so bad that it 'ud be like the time before that moment was all a dream. — Moira Young

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

Power always brings with it responsibility. — Theodore Roosevelt

Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't. — Charles Soule

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

Our passions don't just compel us; they can also heal us. — Diane Guerrero

I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. — R. Kelly

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about. — Michael Ende

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