Bahaudin Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bahaudin Naqshbandi Sufis Sufism
“If you lie with scorpions, you'd better have a taste for poison." (Kendras)” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.” — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Hold your venom Do you recognise the instinct in me, fellow scorpion?” — Kiera Woodhull Copy Share Image
“... learning the knack of disconnecting her sense of smell, until she could switch it off like a radio and in the bland silence… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Perfume should tell a story – the story of who you are, who you might be, perhaps even of who you fear becoming…” — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“That scorpion is turning me into a human! Quick, stop him! Before the transformation is complete!” — Vernon D. Burns Copy Share Image
“Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather,… — Marian Bendeth Copy Share Image
“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 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 is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image