Quotes by Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Explore a curated collection of 87 quotes by Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a per — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before yo — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
No practice exists in isolation. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is c — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Definition of a SufiTo learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they im — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the righ — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Everything man needs is in the world. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
God provides the food, men provide the cooks. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way