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The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Sufi Path Sufi Way Sufis Sufism

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.

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Idries Shah Sufi Wisdom Sufis Sufism And Life

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Abu Hanifa Sufi Wisdom Sufis Sufism

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

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Idries Shah Sufi Teachers Sufi Teaching Sufis Sufism Teaching Sufism Wisdom

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

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.

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Idries Shah Bahaudin Naqshbandi Sufis Sufism

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

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Idries Shah Suf Secrets Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

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Idries Shah Naqshbandi Sufis Sufism Wisdom

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

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Idries Shah Bahaudin Naqshbandi Rules Of The Naqshbandi Sufis Sufism

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

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Idries Shah Bahaudin Bahaudin Naqshband Sufi Teacherer Sufis Sufism Tasawwuf

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

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Idries Shah Bahaudin Naqshband Naqshbandi Sufis Sufism Wisdom

The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Sufi Way Sufis Sufism Tasawwuf

Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Sufi Path Sufi Teacher Sufi Wisdom Sufis Sufism

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

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Idries Shah Detachment Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Logic Rumi Rumi Quote Sufis Sufism

Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

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Idries Shah Deceit Sufis Sufism Truth Wisdom

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

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Idries Shah Sufi Quote Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

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Idries Shah Sufi Quote Sufi Wisdom Sufis Sufism

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

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Idries Shah Idries Shah Sufi Teacher Sufis Sufism

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

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Idries Shah God Rabia Religion Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

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Idries Shah Hazrat Ali Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Nothing cheap without reason.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Limits Of Logic Logic Sufis Sufism

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

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Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform

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Idries Shah Generosity Promises Saadi Sufis Sufism Wisdom

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

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Idries Shah Khawab Knowledge Science Sufis Sufism Wisdom

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

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Idries Shah Knowledge Practice Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

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Idries Shah Sufis Sufism Wisdom

I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.

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Idries Shah Hallaj Sufi Wisdom Sufis Sufism Wisdom

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

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Idries Shah Knowledge Sufis Sufism Wisdom

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Proverb Sufis Sufism Wisdom
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