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Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

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

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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 Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  3. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  4. Don’t stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you’ve been. Start local anyway! – Israelmore Ayivor
  5. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers. – Eric Greitens
  6. Here’s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that-” – David Wong
  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. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  12. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  13. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  14. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  15. 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
  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 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
  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. In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis A Schaeffer
  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. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. – Idries Shah
  23. I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. – Dallin H Oaks
  24. Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
  25. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  26. When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear. – Don DeLillo
  27. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. – Idries Shah
  28. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  29. 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
  30. We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory. – Idries Shah
  31. Success is relative, but happiness is absolute. – Eraldo Banovac
  32. The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made. – Richard Handler
  33. Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
  34. Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear. – Yogi Kanna
  35. So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are. – William Jay
  36. Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat. – Greenhaven
  37. We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
  38. I deny morality as I deny alchemy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  39. If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human. – Sandeep Sahajpal
  40. I believe in Jesus Christ. He said deny me in front of your friends & I will deny you in front of my father. – Werley Nortreus

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