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– Idries Shah
Related Quotes:
- Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt. – Idries Shah
- Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn’t to be judged. Repeat the above each day. – Brittany Burgunder
- When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
- If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
- Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. – Idries Shah
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. – Idries Shah
- I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
- The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. – Idries Shah
- Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt. – Idries Shah
- The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows. – Idries Shah
- The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. – Idries Shah
- if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity – Idries Shah
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? – Idries Shah
- If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don’t have to believe it – especially if you have eyes. – Idries Shah
- Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man’s?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life’s waiting-room. – Idries Shah
- The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
- The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
- He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong. – Idries Shah
- One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts. – Idries Shah
- The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. – Idries Shah
- We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible? – Idries Shah
- Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
- You yourself are your own barrier -“ rise from within it. – Idries Shah
- Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. – Idries Shah
- Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God’s family.(Muhammad the Prophet) – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. – Idries Shah
- Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
- Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf. – Idries Shah
- When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
- Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
- Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah
- Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire -” even when no fire ensued. – Idries Shah
- If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult – hate him. – Idries Shah
