Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study Quotes

“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 : Beginning to Begin

“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 : Beginning to Begin

“You may have forgotten the Way:

But those who came before

Did not forget you.

Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“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 : Beginning to Begin

“Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“The would-be students wish to transcend books.
But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla”.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Antes el Sufismo era una realidad sin nombre: ahora es un nombre sin una realidad”.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Cuando la mente está llena de prejuicios establecidos, no podrá injertar al Sufismo sobre ellos.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“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 : Beginning to Begin

“El Sufismo es experiencia, y por lo tanto no algo a ser definido, aprisionado en categorías perennes, estáticas.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Puede que hayas olvidado el Camino:
Mas aquellos que vinieron antes
No se olvidaron de ti.
Bahaudín Naqshband de Bujará.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“You may have forgotten the Way:
But those who came before
Did not forget you.
Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“El Sufismo es sistematizado sólo por períodos transitorios o limitados; él es principalmente instrumental, no para disfrute o exposición.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“Hace más de mil años, en oriente se escribía que “Antes el Sufismo era una realidad sin nombre: ahora es un nombre sin una realidad”.”
― Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin