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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’.
– Idries Shah

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  1. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more. – Idries Shah
  2. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  3. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  4. Sufism is known by means of itself. – Idries Shah
  5. 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
  6. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – 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 is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  9. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  10. 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
  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. A real secret is something which only one person knows. – Idries Shah
  14. The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. – Idries Shah
  15. Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  16. 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
  17. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus
  18. Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  19. The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power. – Saminu Kanti
  20. If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life. – Chloe Thurlow
  21. The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret. – Criss Jami
  22. Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. – Orville Wright
  23. The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can’t contain, the secret is to feel. – Dean Koontz
  24. There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord. – Kevin Thoman
  25. Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering. – Aram Seriteratai
  26. The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought. – George MacDonald
  27. He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. – Ray Bradbury
  28. The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,The secret of life is Don’t ever lose your senses in the NOW. – Sushil Singh
  29. Because it’s not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside. – Colleen Hoover
  30. Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret. – Glenn Haybittle
  31. You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  32. A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it. – Lemony Snicket
  33. But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so? – Anthony Trollope
  34. What good is a secret if it remains a secret … Secrets are meant to be discovered… – Jocelyn Murray
  35. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. – Sue Miller
  36. If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
  37. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
  38. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  39. Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
  40. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah

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