Quotes by Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

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When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them. — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind. — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality. — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokha — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’. — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality' — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories. — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for e — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
The would-be students wish to transcend books.But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and — Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study