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But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’.
– 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. 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
  3. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  4. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  5. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  6. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  7. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  9. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  10. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  11. 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
  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 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
  14. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  15. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  16. 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
  17. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  18. 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
  19. The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man-¦ therefore increase your necessity. – Idries Shah
  20. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. – William Shakespeare
  24. I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian – AE Samaan
  25. I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian. – AE Samaan
  26. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
  27. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
  28. Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way. – Idries Shah
  29. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon. – Idries Shah
  30. A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work – Idries Shah
  31. In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. – Idries Shah
  32. The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. – Idries Shah
  33. There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
  34. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  35. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you. – Idries Shah
  37. Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. – Idries Shah
  38. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  39. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  40. Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. – Idries Shah

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