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Quotes About Enlightenment

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.
~ Idries Shah
A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work
~ Idries Shah
Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.
~ Idries Shah
What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.
~ 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 Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
~ Idries Shah
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
~ Idries Shah
La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías.
~ Idries Shah
I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)
~ Idries Shah
Sufism is experiential
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.
~ Idries Shah
The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.
~ Idries Shah
Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
~ Idries Shah
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work
~ Idries Shah
Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair
~ Idries Shah
Lo que tienes que aprender es cómo encontrar lo no mundano en todo.
~ Idries Shah
Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that 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.
~ Idries Shah
Sufism is known by means of itself.
~ Idries Shah
El camino de los sufis no puede ser comprendido valiéndose del intelecto o mediante el común aprendizaje a través de libros.
~ Idries Shah
En el Sufismo, el alma humana (ruh) es aquello que es capaz de percibir la realidad objetiva.
~ Idries Shah
Aquel que es afortunadamente iluminado (el Sufi) Sabe que la sofistería procede del diablo, y el amor de Adán.
~ Idries Shah
You cannot learn more until you can learn more.
~ Idries Shah
El secreto se protege a sí mismo. Se lo encuentra únicamente en el espíritu y en la práctica del Trabajo.
~ Idries Shah