Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 50

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.
Idries Shah
The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.
Idries Shah
It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
Idries Shah
At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Idries Shah
At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
Idries Shah
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
Idries Shah
Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life
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
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
Idries Shah
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
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
The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.
Idries Shah
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.
Idries Shah
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Idries Shah
If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.
Idries Shah
Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
Idries Shah
He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.
Idries Shah
Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.
Idries Shah
The bowl is warmer than the soup.
Idries Shah
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Idries Shah
There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.
Idries Shah
The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
Idries Shah
Sufism is the essence of all religions.
Idries Shah
SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)
Idries Shah
The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
Idries Shah
He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.
Idries Shah
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb
Idries Shah
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
Idries Shah
Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Idries Shah
Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.
Idries Shah
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.
Idries Shah
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Idries Shah
Everything man needs is in the world.
Idries Shah
God provides the food, men provide the cooks.
Idries Shah
All the times are best whenever you are with me.
pavankumar nagaraj
Sometimes it is important to sit back and think about your life. Then you realize how awesome you are.
Rohan Kulkarni
Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...
shivangi lavaniya
She: Why do I miss you?He: You miss the concept of 'me.'She: What do you mean?He: I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me.She: And what about me?He: You reside in my heart where the ventricles camouflage my longing.~ Conversations, Avijeet Musafir Das
Avijeet Das
She: Why do you seek me?He: Because you seek me.She: Where will this take us?He: On the journey called 'life.'She: What will we find in this journey?He: The meaning of life.Conversations, Avijeet Musafir Das
Avijeet Das
She: Why was there a distance between you and me?He: Distance makes us realize how much we miss someone.She: Did you realize that?He: I did.She: How much did you miss me?He: Every breath of mine had your name in it!
Avijeet Das
You are there with me, aren't you? I and my silences keep talking about you.
Avijeet Das
The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.
Deepak Chopra
There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.-Mukta
Amita Trasi
I like to live in 'fear'becauSe, you are ready to faceany unexpected thing to become and you have 'no regret' for it.
Sumit Lakhani
She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, the survival of some refugees four years ago, the neem leaves that would preserve quilts stored in the great zinc trunks of Prem Nivas, the moulting feather of some pond-heron, a small unrung brass bell, the memory of decency in an indecent time, the temperament of Bhaskar's great-grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minsisster of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret.And it was right that she should continue to be so, for he should have treated her better while she lived, the poor, ignorant, grieving fool.
Vikram Seth
I am still living in those days ... where you lived me alone :-(
Himangshu Rabha
I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines
Pawan Mehra
Time has no sense but it makes all the sense
pavankumar nagaraj
But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...
Sanhita Baruah
The land wherein the need to be alone and the need to be around people is dissolved together is a complete anarchy.
Pavitraa Parthasarathy
I often choose to be alone, but I never feel lonely.
Debasish Mridha
In the religion these words ‘save me’ were created to suppress the truth of the human life. These words ‘save me’, indicates that you are sinner and so you are uttering these words. But see how wonderful the human life is! Yes, I am Universal. Upanishad is saying ‘Amritasya Putrah’ (Sons of Amrita or Immortal self). What a wonderful version! And in that case they are crying ‘save me’! Upanishads created heaven by saying ‘Sons of Immortal self’ and on the contrary they have created hell by uttering the words ‘Save me’.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .
Salman Rushdie
God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.
Ravi Zacharias
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
Idries Shah
Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Abhijit Naskar