“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“Q: How can I help myself? A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human… — Idries Shah Journey Copy Share Image
“The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.” — Idries Shah Idries-shah Copy Share Image
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. — Idries Shah Belief Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé. Las sutilezas del incomparable” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Alguien dice que no le he enseñado nada que pueda recordar. Aún no puede comprender que eso es precisamente a lo que… — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and… — Idries Shah Hair Copy Share Image
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to… — Idries Shah Death Copy Share Image
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly,… — Idries Shah Biology Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Presence and Absence A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know… — Idries Shah Ego Copy Share Image
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more… — Idries Shah Danger Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Attitude Copy Share Image
“Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.” — Idries Shah Ability Copy Share Image
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be… — Idries Shah Animal Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah History Copy Share Image
“Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.” — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
“If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it… — Idries Shah Belief Copy Share Image
“Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your… — Idries Shah Death Copy Share Image
“Recuerda que virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque apelan a tu codicia.” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. — Idries Shah Effort Copy Share Image
“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain… — Idries Shah Absurd Copy Share Image
“You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.… — Idries Shah Saadi Copy Share Image
“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.” — Idries Shah Context Copy Share Image
“Tu deber es hacer lo mejor que puedas. Sin embargo, no por haber nacido tienes derecho a prevalecer.” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.” — Idries Shah Attachment Copy Share Image
“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.” — Idries Shah Advantage Copy Share Image
“If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the… — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
“The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.” — Idries Shah Hindu Copy Share Image
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.” — Idries Shah Another world Copy Share Image
“Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the… — Idries Shah Convictions Copy Share Image
“Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and… — Idries Shah Experience Copy Share Image
“If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.” — Idries Shah Awareness Copy Share Image
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
