Ego Quotes by Idries Shah

“Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.”

— Idries Shah

“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”

— Idries Shah

“If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.”

— Idries Shah

“Si no te reprochas a ti mismo”, dice Saadi, “no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.”

— Idries Shah

“Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé.”

— Idries Shah

“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

— Idries Shah

“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.”

— Idries Shah

“Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.”

— Idries Shah

“Presence and Absence A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know…

— Idries Shah

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for…

— Idries Shah

“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.”

— Idries Shah

“Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas…

— Idries Shah

“el Sufi es “alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.”

— Idries Shah

“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.”

— Idries Shah

“Aprender a aprender: Decir "sí" a la vía sufi es decir "no" a las fugas imaginadas.”

— Idries Shah