{"quotes":[{"text":"MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["sufi-wisdom","sufis"],"id":223,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["essence","form","perception","religion","sufis","sufism","time","truth"],"id":403,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["bahaudin","bahaudin-naqshband","sufi-teacherer","sufis","sufism","tasawwuf"],"id":742,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hadith","islam","muhammad","religion","sufis","sufism"],"id":1064,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["awareness","consciousness","evolution","mind","sufis","sufism"],"id":1854,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["conceit","education","freedom","independence","psychology","sufis","sufism","vanity"],"id":4109,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["evolution","god","knowledge","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":6327,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hallaj","sufi-wisdom","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":6654,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["conditioning","flexibility","mind","sufis","sufism"],"id":7604,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["hadith","islam","muhammad","religion","saying-of-the-prophet","sufis","sufism"],"id":7717,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":497,"pages":50,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}