Sufi Teaching Quotes

“As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“When Allah manifests Itself to us as the Real, or the Cosmos, we perceive the Divine Names. The Names, due to their distinction from one another (although they all proceed from the same Essence), generate duality. The Names are the self-disclosure of the Essence. However, in knowing Allah as Essence, the dervish crosses over to Unity.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Sufism is a bridge; it is not a religion.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Therefore, we may call Sufism 'The Way of Existence' or, more specifically, 'The Way of the Adamic Being.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“The Human is part angel, part animal; part God and part Cosmos.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis