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A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work
– Idries Shah

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  1. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon. – Idries Shah
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  3. Lose your mind and come to your senses. – Frederick Salomon Perls
  4. I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. – Frederick Salomon Perls
  5. Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet. – Idries Shah
  6. Mediation – Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. – Idries Shah
  7. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened. – Idries Shah
  9. The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun’Nun, by aiming for ‘being as you were, where you were, before you were’. – Idries Shah
  10. Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit…aching to express Itself – Paresh Shah
  11. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  12. 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
  13. Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns. – Idries Shah
  14. The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts -¦ at least momentarily. – Toni Sorenson
  15. A man’s capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. – Idries Shah
  16. The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. – Idries Shah
  17. 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
  18. When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
  19. Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. – Idries Shah
  20. The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward. – Holly Hood
  21. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  22. Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt. – Idries Shah
  23. Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death. – Idries Shah
  24. Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it. – Idries Shah
  25. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. – Idries Shah
  26. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
  27. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
  28. Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way. – Idries Shah
  29. In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. – Idries Shah
  30. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  31. The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. – Idries Shah
  32. Shall I count to ten and then ring a bell before I dive down between your legs?- Dustin teased and sent her a wicked smile. – Kris Cook
  33. A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. – William James
  34. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn. – Idries Shah
  35. 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
  36. All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner. – Idries Shah
  37. The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’. – Idries Shah
  38. Enlightenment must come little by little – otherwise it would overwhelm. – Idries Shah
  39. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring,-¦It is a different story. – Mohamed Saad
  40. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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