Conditioning Quote by Idries Shah

“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you…

— Idries Shah

“Si no te reprochas a ti mismo”, dice Saadi, “no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.”

— Idries Shah

“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”

— Idries Shah

“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

— Idries Shah

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which…

— Idries Shah

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

— Idries Shah

“An individual enters the final stages of the Way when the nafs begins to release its grip on the qalb, thus allowing the ruh—which…

— Reza Aslan

“A seeker went to ask a sage for guidance on the Sufi way. The sage counseled, "if you have never trodden the path of…

— Jami (Essential Sufism

“People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it’s not Sufism.”

— Art Hochberg

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

— Idries Shah

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

— 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

“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”

— Idries Shah

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

— 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