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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.

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

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  1. 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
  2. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  3. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah
  4. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  5. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  6. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  7. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah
  8. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  9. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – 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. She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind. – Stieg Larsson
  15. Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. – David Lloyd George
  16. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. – Idries Shah
  17. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. – Idries Shah
  18. 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
  19. Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  20. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  21. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  22. Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. – Idries Shah
  23. Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way. – Idries Shah
  24. Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. -œThe expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth. – Idries Shah
  25. None should say: -˜I can trust,’ or -˜I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  26. If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. – Idries Shah
  27. There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression. – Idries Shah
  28. None should say: ‘I can trust’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  29. One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts. – Idries Shah
  30. None should say : ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. – Idries Shah
  31. If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. – Idries Shah
  32. Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you. – Idries Shah
  33. Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others. – Idries Shah
  34. DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. – Idries Shah
  35. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. – Idries Shah
  36. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
  37. The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
  38. When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty -” what difference does it make what your decisions are? – Idries Shah
  39. When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
  40. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin

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