563 Quotes by Idries Shah about Sufism

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    But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

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    Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.

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    Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

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    Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

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