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
“As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)” — Idries Shah Proverb Copy Share Image
“Cualquier sociedad que ordene a sus miembros adherirse a ambas cosas (cortesía y verdad) es fraudulenta.” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.” — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge. — Idries Shah Container Copy Share Image
“if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a… — Idries Shah Conditioning 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
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim… — 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 Christianity 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 Generosity Copy Share Image
“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.” — Idries Shah Hindu Copy Share Image
“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.” — Idries Shah Ego Copy Share Image
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. — Idries Shah Friend Copy Share Image
“A loan is the scissors of friendship. A man's own tongue may cut his throat. The cage has no value without the… — Idries Shah Friendship Copy Share Image
“The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.” — Idries Shah Psychology Copy Share Image
“Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.” — Idries Shah Logic Copy Share Image
“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.” — Idries Shah Common sense Copy Share Image
“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a… — Idries Shah Devil Copy Share Image
“Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.” — Idries Shah Automatism Copy Share Image
“Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning… — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Scraps The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil” — Idries Shah Allah Copy Share Image
“He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi] Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.” — Idries Shah Love Copy Share Image
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. — Idries Shah Enemies Copy Share Image
“Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.” — Idries Shah Ego Copy Share Image
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.” — Idries Shah Character Copy Share Image
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. — Idries Shah Moments Copy Share Image
“Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. Ali, the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he… — Idries Shah Absence Copy Share Image
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