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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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