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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'.

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

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  1. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more. – Idries Shah
  2. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  3. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  4. Sufism is known by means of itself. – Idries Shah
  5. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – Idries Shah
  6. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  7. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  9. 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
  10. The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. – Idries Shah
  12. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). – Idries Shah
  13. You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude. – Idries Shah
  14. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  15. The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man-¦ therefore increase your necessity. – Idries Shah
  16. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  17. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  18. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. – Idries Shah
  19. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. – Idries Shah
  20. Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. I think therefore I am. Does that mean ‘I feel therefore I’m not’? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. – Jeanette Winterson
  22. She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. – William Shakespeare
  23. I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian – AE Samaan
  24. I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian. – AE Samaan
  25. Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. – Idries Shah
  26. If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
  27. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. – Idries Shah
  28. It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere. – Idries Shah
  29. None should say: -˜I can trust,’ or -˜I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  30. When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? – Idries Shah
  31. They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. – Idries Shah
  32. None should say: ‘I can trust’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  33. None should say : ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  34. When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
  37. Will the stars say yes? Will the moon say yes? Will the sky say yes? Who will say yes when I will ask you.. will you marry me? – Dr Karan M Pai
  38. When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else. – Christian D Larson
  39. Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  40. 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

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