Quotes by Idries Shah

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The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness — Idries Shah
People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because — Idries Shah
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous. — Idries Shah
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition. — Idries Shah
If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four! — Idries Shah
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their m — Idries Shah
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs. — Idries Shah
Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. — Idries Shah
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact. — Idries Shah
However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet. — Idries Shah
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively exp — Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. — Idries Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacit — Idries Shah
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his slee — Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. — Idries Shah
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves o — Idries Shah
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). — Idries Shah
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. — Idries Shah