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That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
– Idries Shah

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  1. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more. – Idries Shah
  2. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  3. 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
  4. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. – Idries Shah
  5. The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations. – Hazel V Carby
  6. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  7. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufism is known by means of itself. – Idries Shah
  9. 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
  10. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  12. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  13. The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’. – Idries Shah
  14. Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality. – Asa Don Brown
  15. What is man but an illusion perceiving itself in a nested hierarchy of holographic information. – RADelmonico
  16. The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves. – William Hazlitt
  17. There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things. – Marty Rubin
  18. If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving. – Santosh Kalwar
  19. Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude. – Michel Faber
  20. Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. – Steve Maraboli
  21. …there is a myth called objective reality – we think an impersonal world exists apart from us – it doesn’t – it needs us to be … – John Geddes
  22. Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  23. 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
  24. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  25. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  26. Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity. – Stephen Jay Gould
  27. Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – 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. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  30. Inner Knowledge — You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. – Idries Shah
  31. The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. – Idries Shah
  32. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  33. The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service – Idries Shah
  34. If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. – Idries Shah
  35. Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  36. 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
  37. Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does. – Murad S Shah
  38. Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
  39. A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
  40. The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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