Sufism Death Quotes & Sayings

If you must go nowhere, step out. — Jose Lezama Lima

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.' — Bonnie Langford

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. — Idries Shah

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. — A.R. Rahman

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life. — Idries Shah

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power — Kenneth E. Boulding

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. — Saint Basil

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse. — Idries Shah

I would die for you if you want, but if you really want me to die I won't. — M.F. Moonzajer

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. — Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet
Death
Die before your death. — Idries Shah

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. — H.L. Mencken

Saadi's dictum, in the Bostan: 'The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe — Idries Shah

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. — Idries Shah

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence. — Bobby Jones

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means. — Idries Shah

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive. — Idries Shah

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs
He's after food, and death is after him.
(Saadi) — Idries Shah

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. — Demetri Martin

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets ... — Idries Shah

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet. — Idries Shah

How about Oversized Dickhead?"
He shrugged. "Didn't hear you complaining about my oversized - "
She shot to her feet, jostling the table. "Can I speak with you in private?"
"You need it right now?" He feigned exasperation. "We're in the middle of dinner, woman. You're insatiable. — Tessa Bailey

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead. — Idries Shah

Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. — Idries Shah

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! — Idries Shah

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot. — Idries Shah

I was touring a lot ... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything. — Chris Blackwell

Sufism is experiential — Idries Shah

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. — Idries Shah

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? — Ted Dekker

Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest. — David Hayter

Saying of the Prophet
Sleep
Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed — Idries Shah