Idries Shah Quotes

Idries Shah Quote of the day

If you will not reprove yourself, ’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.

He that is purified by love is pure

Remembering and ForgettingYou have not forgotten to remember

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANGURGANI:

The spirit is the mirror

IMPRESSIONS

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

The impatient man is his own enemy

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool:

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions

A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACETell me what to do

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.