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Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
– Idries Shah

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  1. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more. – Idries Shah
  2. 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
  3. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. – Idries Shah
  4. Sufism is known by means of itself. – 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. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
  14. 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
  15. Never treat people with disdain, they all deserve your respect irrespective of their faith or religion – Sunday Adelaja
  16. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
  17. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  18. 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
  19. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  20. I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion. – Debasish Mridha
  21. A mother’s lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since she is the religion. – Ehsan Sehgal
  22. Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
  23. The start of empowering women comes with acknowledgment of thought that every born child is equal irrespective of its sex.  – Nikita Dudani
  24. It isn’t an idea until it’s created irrespective of its result – PrasannaNPK
  25. It isn’t an idea until it’s created, irrespective of its result – PrasannaNPK
  26. Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
  27. …most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. – Idries Shah
  28. Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one’s true interests. – Idries Shah
  29. Form is useful, but it is secondary. – Idries Shah
  30. When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. – Unarine Ramaru
  31. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – 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
  34. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  35. Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position – Sunday Adelaja
  36. Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back. – Kilroy J Oldster
  37. Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item. – Dauglas Dauglas
  38. You can be happy irrespective of what you have. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification. – Jaachynma NE Agu
  40. A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! – Deeba Salim Irfan

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