Idries Shah

Idries Shah

"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
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"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
Idries Shah Knowing How to Know : A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
"Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest."
Idries Shah Caravan of Dreams
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Idries Shah Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history."
Idries Shah Reflections
"The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love."
Idries Shah
"You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean."
Idries Shah
"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."
Idries Shah
"Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong."
Idries Shah
"Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do."
Idries Shah
"Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'."
Idries Shah
"Sufism is experiential"
Idries Shah
"The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny."
Idries Shah
"Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp."
Idries Shah
"No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue."
Idries Shah
"If the father cannot, the son will finish the task."
Idries Shah
"THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)"
Idries Shah
"None meets harm who knows his capacity."
Idries Shah
"Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee."
Idries Shah
"Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge."
Idries Shah
"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’."
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