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I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.

I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.
– Idries Shah

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  2. Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper – Sunday Adelaja
  3. Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. – Criss Jami
  4. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. – Tullian Tchividjian
  5. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
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  7. …is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you – to worship is to give worth to something -“ isn’t that what love is all about?… – John Geddes
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  9. 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
  10. 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
  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. You are both the worshipper and the worshipped. – Abhijit Naskar
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  14. The heart of a worshipper is a heart arrested and set free by the love of God. – Gangai Victor
  15. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
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  17. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
  18. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
  19. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise. – Idries Shah
  20. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. – Idries Shah
  21. You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means. – Idries Shah
  22. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  23. You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means. – Idries Shah
  24. Sufism is known by means of itself. – Idries Shah
  25. There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
  26. There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
  27. Teach honesty by all means – you do know what it is, don’t you? – Idries Shah
  28. Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. – Idries Shah
  29. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. – Idries Shah
  30. You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. – Idries Shah
  31. Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. – Idries Shah
  32. Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. – Idries Shah
  33. If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. – Idries Shah
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  37. Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  38. In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  39. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. – AW Tozer
  40. Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol. – Stanley Hauerwas

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