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Sufism is known by means of itself.

Sufism is known by means of itself.
– Idries Shah

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  1. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more. – Idries Shah
  2. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. – Idries Shah
  3. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
  4. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  5. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  6. Sufism is therefore not ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, or even ‘Do as I do’, but ‘Experience it and you will know’. – Idries Shah
  7. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  9. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  10. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  11. it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’. – Idries Shah
  12. The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’. – Idries Shah
  13. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). – Idries Shah
  14. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
  15. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
  16. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise. – Idries Shah
  17. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  18. The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. – Idries Shah
  19. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  20. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
  21. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. – Idries Shah
  22. You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means. – Idries Shah
  23. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  24. You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means. – Idries Shah
  25. There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
  26. There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
  27. Teach honesty by all means – you do know what it is, don’t you? – Idries Shah
  28. Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. – Idries Shah
  29. You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. – Idries Shah
  30. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
  31. Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  32. Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. – Zarina Bibi
  33. Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist. – Simon Cheshire
  34. A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week. – Onyi Anyado
  35. I like the word ‘????’. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean. – Lisa Glatt
  36. He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. – Tom Stoppard
  37. The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). – Dada Bhagwan
  38. Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart. – Tony Samara
  39. I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me. – Pippa DaCosta
  40. If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you. – Sadghuru

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