If you want special illumination, look upon the human…

“It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.”

— Idries Shah

“Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained”

— Idries Shah

“Toma el trigo, no la medida que lo contiene.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will…

— Idries Shah

“Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)”

— Idries Shah

“It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).”

— Idries Shah

“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”

— Idries Shah

“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when…

— Aberjhani

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

— Idries Shah

“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.”

— Idries Shah

“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”

— Idries Shah

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah