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It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
– Idries Shah

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  1. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. – Idries Shah
  2. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  3. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  4. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  5. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  6. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  7. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah
  8. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  9. 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
  10. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  11. 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
  12. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  13. Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah
  14. Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal. – David McRaney
  16. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  17. Inner Knowledge — You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. – Idries Shah
  18. Don’t live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. – Amit Kalantri
  19. Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  20. The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
  21. Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles – Sunday Adelaja
  22. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  23. Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you. – Idries Shah
  24. All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner. – Idries Shah
  25. If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
  26. Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. – Idries Shah
  27. Eat what you desire, but dress like other people. – Idries Shah
  28. To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  29. With persistent attempt, you will succeed. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  30. To failure at something is an attempt to succeed – Lailah Gifty Akita
  31. What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
  32. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
  33. The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
  34. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  35. Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
  36. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
  37. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  38. There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. – GK Chesterton
  39. You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don’t start you will never succeed. – Oscar Bimpong
  40. If at first you don’t succeed, try again.If you still don’t succeed, blame someone else. – Jeffrey S Trosin

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