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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.

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

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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. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
  3. Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding. – Idries Shah
  4. …action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. – Idries Shah
  5. A man’s capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. – Idries Shah
  6. 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
  7. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  8. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  9. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  10. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  11. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  12. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  13. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  14. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  15. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  19. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  20. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. – Idries Shah
  21. A woman’s strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence… – Virginia Alison
  22. Our heads are filled with -˜knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all. – Idries Shah
  23. People talk about -˜service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not. – Idries Shah
  24. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah
  25. For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter. – Dada Bhagwan
  26. To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries! – Jaachynma NE Agu
  28. It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
  29. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing. – Maya Banks
  30. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. – Socrates
  31. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  32. Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. – Idries Shah
  33. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving. – Debasish Mridha
  34. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living. – Debasish Mridha
  35. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. – Leonard Ravenhill
  36. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
  37. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
  38. Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. – Idries Shah
  39. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. – Idries Shah
  40. Love connects a man to his woman, money a woman to his man – Grazia Deledda

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