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If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…


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What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.



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Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.



… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.



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The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.





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This page presents the quote "If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…". Author of this quote is Idries Shah, The Commanding Self. This quote is about sufism, evolution, sufis, truth,.