Quote by

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.
– Idries Shah

Related Quotes:

  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. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  3. …A strange art -“ music -“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. – Guy de Maupassant
  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. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – 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. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  12. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – 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 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
  15. 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
  16. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  17. Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. – David Nicholls
  18. Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing. – Dag Hammarskjld
  19. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. – Ernest Becker
  20. Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. – Barack Obama
  21. Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it. – Idries Shah
  22. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  23. Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
  24. People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. – Idries Shah
  25. All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. – Idries Shah
  26. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
  27. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  28. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. – Idries Shah
  29. The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service – Idries Shah
  30. Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family. – Idries Shah
  31. Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family. – Idries Shah
  32. If we serve God, we must not disdain or shun any job, God will not use a lazy man – Sunday Adelaja
  33. True riches belong to those who shun false ones. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  34. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin? – John Pereira
  36. Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time! – Jaachynma NE Agu
  37. God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus. – Jaachynma NE Agu
  38. Listen until you’re the smartest.Learn until you’re the wisest.Live until you’re the merriest.Love until you’re the kindest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It’s limited to love and bond to one another in one’s heart – Joyce Guo
  40. A limited mind will have a limited world! – Mehmet Murat ildan

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , , ,