As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
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Idries Shah
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A Perfumed Scorpion
Aprender a aprender
Caravan of Dreams
Darkest England
Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Observations
Reflections
Seeker After Truth
Special Illumination: The Sufi Use of Humor
Sufi Thought and Action
Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years
The Book of the Book
The Commanding Self
The Dermis Probe
The Elephant in the Dark
The Magic Monastery: Analogical and Action Philosophy of the Middle East and Central Asia
The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
The Sufis
The Way of the Sufi
The World of Nasrudin
The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work
Thinkers of the East
Wisdom of the Idiots
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Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.
Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work
The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.
It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.
If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.
Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.
The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.
The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
The Sufi teacher__ mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.
One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.