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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: — A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provid — Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers. — Idries Shah, The Sufis
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud. — Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi) — Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it — it is his next step.
The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. — Idries Shah, Reflections
HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching — HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.
Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets — many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books. — Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACETell me what to do — but it must be what I want you to tell me.
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions — and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but — Idries Shah, Reflections
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory. — Idries Shah, The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work
Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same — Idries Shah, The Commanding Self
Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my mos — Idries Shah, Reflections
If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another. — Idries Shah, The Sufis
The impatient man is his own enemy — he slams the door on his own progress.
He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head. — Idries Shah, The Sufis
The worst of sages is a visitor of princes — the best of princes is a visitor of sages.