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Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
– Idries Shah

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  2. Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. – Idries Shah
  3. Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. – Eckhart Tolle
  4. In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; -˜here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization). – Dada Bhagwan
  5. You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours. – Dennis Prager
  6. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. – Idries Shah
  7. All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. – Idries Shah
  8. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  9. Don’t think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited. – CS Lewis
  10. Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. -œThe expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth. – Idries Shah
  11. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  12. When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail. – Idries Shah
  13. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  14. 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
  15. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah
  16. Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context. – Tony Dovale
  17. The liar has a bad memory. – Idries Shah
  18. DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. – Idries Shah
  19. Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness? – Idries Shah
  20. Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  21. Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you’ve got nowhere to go. – Adam Haslett
  22. Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. – Vikrmn
  23. They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted. – Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
  24. Questions are vehicles to the future. Answers are milestones along the way. – Ted Agon
  25. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. – David Nicholls
  26. These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle – Barbara W Tuchman
  27. Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking. – Godo Stoyke
  28. There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark. – Markus Peterson
  29. WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context. – Tony Dovale
  30. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  31. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  32. Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way. – Idries Shah
  33. None should say: -˜I can trust,’ or -˜I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  34. 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
  35. If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. – Idries Shah
  36. The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so. – Idries Shah
  37. There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression. – Idries Shah
  38. None should say: ‘I can trust’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  39. None should say : ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  40. If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. – Idries Shah

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