Naqshband Quotes

“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Counsels of Bahaudin
You want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:
First
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.”
― Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East

“You may have forgotten the Way:
But those who came before
Did not forget you.
Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin