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Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit. — Idries Shah

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens. — Idries Shah

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan — Idries Shah

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. — Idries Shah

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition — Idries Shah

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness. — Idries Shah

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure. — Idries Shah

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence. — Wasif Ali Wasif

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi). — Idries Shah

Sufism is known by means of itself. — Idries Shah

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness. — Wasif Ali Wasif

The Choice of a purpose is more important than success. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth. — Idries Shah

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command. — Saadi

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man. — Idries Shah

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye. — Wasif Ali Wasif

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living. — Idries Shah

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity. — Idries Shah

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion). — Wasif Ali Wasif

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap. — Idries Shah

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. — Idries Shah

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss. — Idries Shah

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity — Soroosh Shahrivar

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it. — Idries Shah

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life — Idries Shah

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion — Idries Shah

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. — Idries Shah

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations — Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. — Idries Shah

Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished? — Donna Goddard

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam. — Idries Shah

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards. — Fazal Inayat-Khan

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. — Wasif Ali Wasif

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. — Idries Shah

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt. — Idries Shah

If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals). — Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it. — Idries Shah

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened. — Idries Shah

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal. — Idries Shah

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps. — Wasif Ali Wasif

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) — Idries Shah

Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise. — Idries Shah

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots. — Wasif Ali Wasif

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love. — Soroosh Shahrivar

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. — Idries Shah

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. — Idries Shah

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk. — Idries Shah

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. — Idries Shah

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean — Wasif Ali Wasif

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. — Idries Shah

Remedy
Your 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

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon. — Idries Shah

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow. — Idries Shah

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything — Idries Shah

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication. — Idries Shah

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. — Idries Shah

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. — Idries Shah

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery. — Wasif Ali Wasif

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi. — Idries Shah

Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace. — Wasif Ali Wasif

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. — Idries Shah

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever). — Wasif Ali Wasif

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself — Idries Shah

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death. — Wasif Ali Wasif

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions. — Idries Shah