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    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
    “The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
    ― Imam Al-Ghazali
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    Idries Shah
    “It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
    ― Idries Shah, The Sufis
    tags: sufi, sufism
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    Idries Shah
    “It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”
    ― Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East
    tags: sufis, sufism, wisdom
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    Idries Shah
    “In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”
    ― Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know : A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
    tags: behaviour, proverb, psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom
    12 likes

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    Idries Shah
    “Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.”
    ― Idries Shah, Observations
    tags: experience, knowledge, life, sufis, sufism, wisdom
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    Idries Shah
    “The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”
    ― Idries Shah, The Sufis
    tags: knowledge, sufis, sufism, wisdom
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    Idries Shah
    “Haste is from the Devil.”
    ― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
    tags: proverb, proverbs-about-the-devil, sufis, sufism, wisdom
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    Idries Shah
    “If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.”
    ― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
    tags: omar-khayyam, sufis, sufism, wine-quote, wisdom
    7 likes

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    Idries Shah
    “One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”
    ― Idries Shah, The Commanding Self
    tags: death, proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom
    18 likes

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    Simone Weil
    “All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: human-nature
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    Simone Weil
    “A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
    ― Simone Weil, Waiting for God
    tags: feminism, mysticism
    342 likes



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