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A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
– 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. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  3. 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
  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. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – 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 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 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
  15. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  16. When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what ‘belief’ is really for. – Idries Shah
  17. It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. – Johann Sebastian Bach
  18. Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. – Angela Carter
  19. A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one. – Jeffrey Fry
  20. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  21. Study in direction of your field and find maximum amount of information about it , read all possible information concerning it – Sunday Adelaja
  22. Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. – Sharon Weil
  23. We often know information but not the epistemology of that information. – Debasish Mridha
  24. It’s important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available. – Anne Elizabeth Moore
  25. The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  26. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. You do not keep the audience’s interest by giving it information, but by withholding information …. – Robert McKee
  28. In this time of ‘information overload’, people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to. – Maarten Schfer
  29. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. – Bruce Coville
  30. EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. – Idries Shah
  31. If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. – Idries Shah
  32. The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation – Anders Rydell
  33. Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. – Tahir Shah
  34. There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information. – Tahir Shah
  35. Sufis are keys to open up hearts. – Muhammad TahirulQadri
  36. Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely. – Atalina Wright
  37. Never give up.Never give up on your hopes.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your visions. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  38. Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt. – Orrin Woodward
  39. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  40. The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine

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