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The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
– 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. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  3. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  4. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  5. 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
  6. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – 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. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  16. Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr. – Idries Shah
  17. Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know. – Idries Shah
  18. Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi) – Idries Shah
  19. People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. – Idries Shah
  20. The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  21. The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
  23. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle
  24. Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? – Onyi Anyado
  26. Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. – Idries Shah
  28. Sufis are keys to open up hearts. – Muhammad TahirulQadri
  29. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – PA Shah
  30. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  31. Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. – Idries Shah
  32. Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding. – Idries Shah
  33. The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: ‘What do you think I am, stupid, or something? – Idries Shah
  34. Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. – Idries Shah
  35. Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family. – Idries Shah
  36. Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour. – Idries Shah
  37. Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor. – Idries Shah
  38. Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men. – Idries Shah
  39. Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other. – Idries Shah
  40. Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf. – Idries Shah

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