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The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
– Idries Shah

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  1. The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’. – Idries Shah
  2. 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
  3. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. – Criss Jami
  4. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  5. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  6. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  7. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  8. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  9. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  10. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  11. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  12. 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
  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 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
  15. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  16. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  17. There is a saying that, according to what a person’s mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil’s face. – Idries Shah
  18. Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
  19. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. – Idries Shah
  20. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  21. Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. – Idries Shah
  22. 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
  23. If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders! – Israelmore Ayivor
  24. What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings. – Idries Shah
  25. You can perceive a person’s aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person. – Idries Shah
  26. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. – HenriFrdric Amiel
  27. Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. – Yuval Noah Harari
  28. Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does. – Murad S Shah
  29. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief. – Debasish Mridha
  30. Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  31. The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion. – Errol Anthony Smythe
  32. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation. – Debasish Mridha
  33. I am not pretty; I am not ugly. I am not true, and I am not false. I am just me-”a reality, a conception, and not a misinterpretation. – Debasish Mridha
  34. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
  35. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). – Idries Shah
  36. I have become more aware of (1) how true emotions can feel during crucial moments, and (2) how false they really are. – Joseph Grenny
  37. It’s ego -“ the false self -“ that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true. – Jed McKenna
  38. Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew. – Munindra Misra
  39. Be true to yourself and don’t live your life according to other people’s dreams and wants. – Ambra Celeste
  40. You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude. – Idries Shah

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