Psicologia Quote by Idries Shah

“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

“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”

— Idries Shah

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

“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”

— Idries Shah

“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”

— Idries Shah

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

“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

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”

— Idries Shah

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

— Idries Shah

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

— Idries Shah

“Who is the wrong person to criticise? You”

— Idries Shah