"Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another."

Secrecy, Knowledge, Harm, Awareness, Potential

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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

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"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."

George P. Shultz, American Public Servant

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Gilbert Parker, British Politician

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"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."

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"Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

Chanakya, Indian Politician

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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

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"Government is build on secrets."

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"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."

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"But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'."

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."

"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something."

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."