563 Quotes by Idries Shah about Sufism
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Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?
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Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
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Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
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Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
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Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
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Correct teaching brings out human excellence.
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If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.
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