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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.

Idries Shah
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Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Idries Shah, The Sufis
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MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions

and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
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ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
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