1,132 Quotes About Sufis
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Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
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Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
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Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
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Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.
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Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
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Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.
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None meets harm who knows his capacity.
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La caridad ha sido convertida en una gran virtud sólo por el bajo nivel de decencia humana.
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Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
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