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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.

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

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  1. 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
  2. Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. – Bryant McGill
  3. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. – Idries Shah
  4. It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. – Idries Shah
  5. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  6. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  7. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. – Idries Shah
  8. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. – Idries Shah
  9. Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and -œorders- are in fact only of archaeological interest. – Idries Shah
  10. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. – Idries Shah
  11. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  12. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. – Idries Shah
  13. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
  14. Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental. – Idries Shah
  15. She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
  16. If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. – Idries Shah
  17. When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
  18. What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
  19. When you cease to love, you cease to exist. – Debasish Mridha
  20. I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving. – Marcel Proust
  21. A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God. – Philip Yancey
  22. If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult – hate him. – Idries Shah
  23. Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you. Don’t worry about the things. Seek Him first and watch Him work in you. – Andrena Sawyer
  24. Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  25. Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. – Idries Shah
  26. They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. – Idries Shah
  27. If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher. – Idries Shah
  28. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love – Bryant McGill
  29. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. – Bryant McGill
  30. 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
  31. Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. – Idries Shah
  32. Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi) – Idries Shah
  33. 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
  34. Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns. – 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. 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
  39. When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty -” what difference does it make what your decisions are? – Idries Shah
  40. When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah

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