A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah 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 lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
