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A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
– Idries Shah

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  1. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  2. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah
  3. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  4. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  5. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  6. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  7. 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
  8. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  9. 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
  10. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. – Idries Shah
  12. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  13. Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah
  14. An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response. – Shannon L Alder
  15. Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man’s?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life’s waiting-room. – Idries Shah
  16. Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
  17. Better to be safe than to be sorry’ is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. – Idries Shah
  18. The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. – Idries Shah
  19. From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:’Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. – Idries Shah
  20. Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M Scott Peck
  21. If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out. – Bryant McGill
  22. It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff. – Richie Norton
  23. …you do violence with your words if you force them – art is given – the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands – call it a Muse … – John Geddes
  24. In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17) – Victoria Moran
  25. It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won’t. – Justin Taylor
  26. Enjoy the moment, this is all we have at this moment. This moment is our life. – Debasish Mridha
  27. A kiss is a moment of quantum leaps, a moment of shared joy, and a moment of bliss. – Debasish Mridha
  28. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment! – Debasish Mridha
  29. There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available. – Osho
  30. Every moment that we live our life, we live for the moment and then the moment dies. – Debasish Mridha
  31. Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. – Mary Balogh
  32. If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
  33. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
  34. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. – Idries Shah
  35. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. – Idries Shah
  36. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
  37. When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? – Idries Shah
  38. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  39. Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
  40. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah

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