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Idries Shah

"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."

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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"

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"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."

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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."

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"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."

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"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."

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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."

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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."

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"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."

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"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."

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"As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'."

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