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Sufism - A Study of the Sufi Self
Sufi sage advised me to look at the behaviour of people, shall say, including tolerance, indifference, hostility and the rest. Transformed into an observation technique, it becomes a truly remarkable assessment tool. The area of psychological activity in the human being is, for the sufi that of his secondary, raw and conditioned self. This is not the self which achieves higher consciousness, but is socially operative.
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