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Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
– Idries Shah

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  1. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah
  2. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  3. Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does. – Murad S Shah
  4. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  5. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  6. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  7. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  8. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah
  9. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  10. The Sufi is one who does what others do -“ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do -“ when it is indicated. – Idries Shah
  11. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  12. The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. – Idries Shah
  13. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  14. Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah
  15. Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  16. Secrets…were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk. – Harlan Coben
  17. Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. – Sarah Pinborough
  18. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  19. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  20. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  21. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  22. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
  23. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. Within my words there is a longingTo be written, through the senses to travel across the mindTo be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep. – Preeth Nambiar
  25. Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers – Pat Conroy
  26. Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. – Idries Shah
  27. Words have to die if humans are to live. – Idries Shah
  28. The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun’Nun, by aiming for ‘being as you were, where you were, before you were’. – Idries Shah
  29. Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. – James Joyce
  30. He’d kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. – Kim Edwards
  31. It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life. – Felix Alexander
  32. Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. – Kim Edwards
  33. Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets. – Candace Bushnell
  34. For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity. – Sebastian Barry
  35. Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out. – Franny Billingsley
  36. Secrets… Dexter a perfect example what… can happen with secrets. – Deyth Banger
  37. I didn’t like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people. – Elizabeth Eulberg
  38. Keep your secrets. You’re too young and beautiful not to have secrets. – Velvetoscar
  39. There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. – J Robert Oppenheimer
  40. Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things. – Augusta Scattergood

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