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1 " Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility. "
― Idries Shah , A Perfumed Scorpion
2 " Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it. "
3 " Patience is the food of understanding. "
4 " There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons. "
5 " The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. "
6 " It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'. "
7 " Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'. "
8 " A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan "
9 " Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. "
10 " Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband "
11 " What the self-imagined mystic seeks only in his meditation is visible to the Sufi on every street corner and in every alleyway "
12 " Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it.... "
13 " The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is. "
14 " El intelecto no es soberano: el conocimiento lo es. "
15 " El conocimiento no se puede alcanzar sino a través de la humildad. "
16 " El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real. "
17 " Lo que el autoimaginado místico busca sólo en su meditación, es visible para el Sufi en cada esquina y cada callejuela. "
18 " Por tanto el sufismo no es “Haz como digo y no como hago”, o incluso “Haz como hago”, sino “Experiméntalo y conocerás”. "
19 " Él es un Maestro que puede enseñar sin que ello sea totalmente etiquetado como enseñanza; Él es un estudiante que puede aprender sin estar obsesionado con el aprendizaje. "
20 " La paciencia es el alimento de la comprensión. "
