“Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en tales condiciones ella no podrá encontrar ninguna expresión.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a… — 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 Copy Share Image
“These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Love is described by the Sufis as the remedy of all ills and the alchemy of existence. Love transforms poverty to riches,… — Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD Copy Share Image
“Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them. The Sufis of all ages have… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Sufism made use of the material provided by religious scholars that described knowledge as light. Going far beyond it, Sufi thinking was… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I remembered the malangs of Shah Jamal, the dirty, shirtless renouncers with ratty beards and dreads and bare chests covered in necklaces… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
