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• The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we… — Eknath Easwaran
• You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale
• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People… — Idries Shah
• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray,… — Jack Kornfield
• Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain. — Tori Amos
• It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis. — Idries Shah
• The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete. — Idries Shah
• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi
• Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan
• The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah

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