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#1

“Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

tags: behaviour, destiny, fate, life, psychology, sufis, sufism

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#2

“Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.
Proverb”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: sufi-proverb, sufis, sufism

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#3

“Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it”
― Idries Shah, Wisdom of the Idiots

tags: evolution, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#4

“As swords were designed to kill
They did well to make them tongue-shaped.

(Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#5

“And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.”
― Idries Shah, The World Of The Sufi

tags: rumi, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#6

“The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: perception, psychology, sufis, sufism

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#7

“Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

tags: psychology, sufi-way, sufis, sufism, trust, wisdom

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#8

“Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

tags: abu-hanifa, sufi-wisdom, sufis, sufism

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#9

“The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#10

“You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.”
― Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East

tags: bahaudin, evolution, naqshbandihbandi, sufi-way, sufis, sufism

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#11

“Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

tags: logic, rumi, rumi-quote, sufis, sufism

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#12

“Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

tags: ignorance, sufi-quote, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#13

“Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

tags: evolution, knowledge, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#14

“A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE
Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

tags: psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#15

“The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: knowledge, learning, sufis, sufism, tasawwuf, wisdom

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#16

“Humility has to precede instruction.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

tags: humility, psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#17

“Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi

tags: hazrat-ali, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#18

“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: knowledge, psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#19

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”
― Idries Shah

tags: sufi, sufism

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#20

“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

tags: learning, sleeping, sufis, sufism

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#21

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

tags: healing, influence, patience, sufism

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#22

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: consciousness, death, evolution, life, psychology, sufis, sufism, will

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#23

“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

tags: islam, religion, sufis, sufism

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#24

“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”
― Idries Shah

tags: llumination, love, sufism

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#25

“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, choice, couple, door, doorstep, ego, enter, give-in, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, leave, let-go, love, love-quotes, lover, relationship, relationship-quotes, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, sufism, surrender, transcend, transcendence

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#26

“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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#27

“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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#28

“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:
Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi

tags: sufis, sufism, wisdom, ziaudin

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#29

“To live in love is my life’s purpose.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, in-love, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, life-quotes, live, lives, love, love-quotes, lover, loving, purpose, sufi, sufism

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#30

“You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
You must be more awake than light
for we aren’t born sleeping
and we shouldn’t live sleeping.
Only then will death’s slumber
become sweet.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: alive, alive-quotes, awake, awareness, born, conscious, consciousness, dance, dancing, darkness, death, enjoy, hear, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, life, life-quotes, light, live, live-in-the-moment, living, presence, present, see, silence, sing, singing, sleep, sleeping, slumber, sufi, sufism, sufism-quotes, sweet, unity

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