Sufi Teachers Quotes & Sayings

A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces. — Richard Branson

Oh, ye've a temper,' said Archie consideringly. 'And ye had a rare old time losing it, and ye were like enough justified at that. But take a thought, too. Are ye to accuse Graham Malett in the law courts from the flat o' a bier-claith, or on two sticks like a wife wi' Arthretica? If ye're tae walk upright like the fine, testy gentleman ye are, ye'll need some nursing, I'd say. So I fear Guthrie and I had best bide. — Dorothy Dunnett

Heaven set couples for babies' birth. — Toba Beta

I laughed. Clutched him in a hug and planted a kiss on his cheek. "What was that for?" he said; startled, blushing. I gave him a friendly hug, smiled. "You're a prince, Hassan. You're a prince and I love you. — Khaled Hosseini

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything. — Mary McCarthy

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures. — John Woolman

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony. — Idries Shah

Many Sufis are not guides. — Idries Shah

Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. — Isaac Watts

Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. — Douglas Coupland

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. — William Winwood Reade

Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life? — Joyce Carol Oates

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one. — Bob Hope

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

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions. — Idries Shah

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life. — Jenna Elfman