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The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
– Idries Shah

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  1. The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’. – Idries Shah
  2. Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. – John Fowles
  3. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  4. Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
  5. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  6. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  7. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  8. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  9. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  10. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  11. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  12. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  13. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  14. 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
  15. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  16. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  17. Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  18. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. – Oscar Wilde
  19. It was the inverse of an island in the sea. – Elisabeth Eaves
  20. Give importance to those peoplewho give importance to you. – Luffina Lourduraj
  21. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T S Eliot
  22. The lightning said to the oak tree: -˜Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! – Idries Shah
  23. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
  24. It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. – Idries Shah
  25. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
  26. My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts. – Tahir Shah
  27. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  28. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise. – Idries Shah
  29. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  30. If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don’t have to believe it – especially if you have eyes. – Idries Shah
  31. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  32. Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. – Idries Shah
  33. Sufis are keys to open up hearts. – Muhammad TahirulQadri
  34. Your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask. – Mensah Oteh
  35. Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask. – Mensah Oteh
  36. Proportion is the heart of beauty. – Ken Follett
  37. The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God’s Word. – Elizabeth George
  38. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
  39. Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes. – Honor de Balzac
  40. Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. – John Godfrey Saxe

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