Philip Egan

“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds”
― Idries Shah

“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia.”
― Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

“Animus is the soul in woman just as anima is the soul in man. Animus usually personifies himself as a masculine force and appears in women’s dreams as a masculine figure. Women relate to their animus side differently than men relate to anima, but there is one thing that men and women have in common: Romantic love always consists in the projection of the soul-image. When a woman falls in love it is animus that she sees projected onto the mortal man before her. When a man drinks of the love potion, it is anima, his soul, that he sees superimposed on a woman.”
― Robert A. Johnson, We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love