Shah Quotes
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
None should say : 'I can trust, ' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Do hugs, not drugs. Spread love, not legs. Respect, don't judge. Listen more, talk less. Understand, don't assume. Forgive and forget..!!
The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.
My mother is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being.I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.I love my mom!
Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.
The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.
The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.
It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.
As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.
I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.
A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation
I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia
When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.
I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk, A mystery, And the most annihilating thing I have ever known.
Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.
People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.
We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?
