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Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.

Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.
– Idries Shah

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  1. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  2. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah
  3. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  4. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  5. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  6. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah
  7. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  8. The Sufi is one who does what others do -“ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do -“ when it is indicated. – Idries Shah
  9. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  10. The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  12. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. – Idries Shah
  13. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  14. Believe in miracles as if there’s no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain. – Val Uchendu
  15. There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit. – Dada Bhagwan
  16. The most purely free decision one can make-”and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth-”is believing in something without evidential knowledge. – JSB Morse
  17. Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart. – Debasish Mridha
  18. Each day brings its own miracles. May your hearts and mind be open to daily miracles. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  19. Create your own miracles, don’t just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want. – Steven Redhead
  20. Make your own Miracles, don’t wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy to make them real. – Steven Redhead
  21. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
  22. If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
  23. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
  24. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. – Idries Shah
  25. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. – Idries Shah
  26. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. – Idries Shah
  27. If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don’t have to believe it – especially if you have eyes. – Idries Shah
  28. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  29. To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
  30. Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong. – Idries Shah
  31. One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts. – Idries Shah
  32. The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. – Idries Shah
  33. We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible? – Idries Shah
  34. 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
  35. Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam. – Idries Shah
  36. Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God’s family.(Muhammad the Prophet) – Idries Shah
  37. Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. – Idries Shah
  38. Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. – Idries Shah
  39. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
  40. Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire -” even when no fire ensued. – Idries Shah

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