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One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
– Idries Shah

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  2. If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint? – Sanchit Gupta
  3. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  4. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. – Nelson Mandela
  5. 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
  6. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  7. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  8. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  9. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  10. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  11. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  12. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  13. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  14. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  15. 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
  16. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  17. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  18. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  19. You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint. – Peter Kreeft
  20. Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint. – Kate Evangelista
  21. Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it. – Idries Shah
  22. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft. – Idries Shah
  23. Show me a person who really knows what ‘good’ is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word. – Idries Shah
  24. The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
  25. 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
  26. A real secret is something which only one person knows. – Idries Shah
  27. There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  28. No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you’re not alone. – Richie Norton
  29. The lightning said to the oak tree: -˜Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! – Idries Shah
  30. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
  31. It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. – Idries Shah
  32. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
  33. If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. – Idries Shah
  34. Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire -” even when no fire ensued. – Idries Shah
  35. Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense – Buda
  36. Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  37. Sufis are keys to open up hearts. – Muhammad TahirulQadri
  38. If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you. – Rishabh Surya
  39. A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge. – Magdalen Braden
  40. Parents shouldn’t leave their kids unless -”unless they’ve got to. – JK Rowling

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