6 Quotes by Idries Shah about tradition
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
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The would-be students wish to transcend books.But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough.
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Sufism is experiential
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The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.
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