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The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
– Idries Shah

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  1. 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
  2. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  3. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – 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. Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah
  15. 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
  16. I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real -“ through the Real. – Idries Shah
  17. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
  18. …I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. – Julian Barnes
  19. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. – Idries Shah
  20. I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. – Dallin H Oaks
  21. A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind. – Haresh Sippy
  22. You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them. – Idries Shah
  23. We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory. – Idries Shah
  24. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse
  25. Success is relative, but happiness is absolute. – Eraldo Banovac
  26. 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
  27. If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher. – Idries Shah
  28. He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief. – Simon Lelic
  29. Sounds like you’re trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.”I’m not trying to say it – I just said it. – Neil Gaiman Michael Reaves
  30. I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. – Abigail Padgett
  31. Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing. – David Niven
  32. I’d been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me. – SA Tawks
  33. Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! – Raimbaut de Vaqueyras
  34. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  35. Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. – Idries Shah
  36. EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. – Idries Shah
  37. If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. – Idries Shah
  38. A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work – Idries Shah
  39. Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
  40. Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. – Frank Herbert

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