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Patience is the food of understanding.
Idries Shah
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Idries Shah
You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)
Idries Shah
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.
Idries Shah
Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.
Idries Shah
Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
Tahir Shah
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.
Idries Shah
Everything man needs is in the world.
Idries Shah
The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.
Idries Shah
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.
Idries Shah
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
Idries Shah
Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.
Idries Shah
Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
Idries Shah
He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.
Idries Shah
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
Idries Shah
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
Idries Shah
Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.
Idries Shah
What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.
Idries Shah
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah
O You !Come under the roof of LOVE.this is the only place where PEACE exist.
ASHIQHUSSAIN
Rust through washing never became white.
Idries Shah
The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
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, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
Idries Shah
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
Idries Shah
Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.
Idries Shah
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
Idries Shah
Hak cihâna tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.
Yunus Emre
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
Idries Shah
Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.
Kamand Kojouri
From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.
Idries Shah
When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.
Idries Shah
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
Idries Shah
Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb
Idries Shah
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Idries Shah
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured
Idries Shah
None meets harm who knows his capacity.
Idries Shah
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Idries Shah
The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me.
Kamand Kojouri
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
Idries Shah
What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?
Idries Shah
Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.
Idries Shah
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
Idries Shah
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Idries Shah
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Idries Shah
Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.
Idries Shah
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.
Idries Shah
In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
Idries Shah
you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you
Jalaluddin Rumi
Sufism is experiential
Idries Shah
The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.
Idries Shah
None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries Shah
The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.
Idries Shah
I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and twirled and twirled. 'Look,' I said. 'Look.
Rabih Alameddine
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
Shamcher Bryn Beorse
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