Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous. — Idries Shah Advice Copy Share Image
“Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.” — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.” — Idries Shah Allah 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
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? — Idries Shah Destiny Copy Share Image
“Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.” — Idries Shah Fraud Copy Share Image
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the… — Idries Shah Ants Copy Share Image
“Quienquiera que perfume a un escorpión no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.” — Idries Shah Ego Copy Share Image
“Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to… — Idries Shah Dimensions Copy Share Image
“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.” — Idries Shah Birth 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize… — Idries Shah Camels Copy Share Image
“Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a… — Idries Shah Books Copy Share Image
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.” — Idries Shah Duty Copy Share Image
“To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.” — Idries Shah Conditioning Copy Share Image
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. — Idries Shah Hindu Copy Share Image
“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.” — Idries Shah Candle Copy Share Image
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