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People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
– Idries Shah

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  1. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  2. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  3. Sufism is known by means of itself. – Idries Shah
  4. Sufism is therefore not ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, or even ‘Do as I do’, but ‘Experience it and you will know’. – Idries Shah
  5. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – Idries Shah
  6. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  7. Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  9. 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
  10. The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. – Idries Shah
  12. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). – Idries Shah
  13. A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
  14. Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
  15. Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change. – Santosh Kalwar
  16. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  17. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
  18. Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change. – Pearl Zhu
  19. You can perceive a person’s aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person. – Idries Shah
  20. SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri) – Idries Shah
  21. Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
  22. Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  23. Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. – Zarina Bibi
  24. The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed. – Billy Graham
  25. If you want to change your future, you have to change your now, and to change your now you must change your mindset. – Anthony L Williams
  26. 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
  27. Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life – Danny Stone
  28. Change is often overrated: at times, all you need to change is how you change what you change in your life. – Asuni LadyZeal
  29. When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management – Peter M Senge
  30. Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you! – Israelmore Ayivor
  31. You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind! – Latif Mercado
  32. Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  33. The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  34. The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  35. If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible. – T Harv Eker
  36. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  37. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
  38. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  39. When people have a hard task to do – one which stretches them – they become less concerned with trivial matters. – Idries Shah
  40. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. – Idries Shah

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