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Idries Shah

"People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs."

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"People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs."

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"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
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"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."
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"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."
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"But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'."
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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."
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"Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word."
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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."
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"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."
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"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."
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"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
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