About Idries Shah: Idries Shah was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por medio de la crueldad. Ninguno de los abordajes es correcto.
El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.
No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.
Puedes aprender más en media hora de contacto directo con una fuente de conocimiento (no importa la razón aparente del contacto o el tema de la transacción) que en años de esfuerzos formales.
Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque lo que dicen o hacen le resulta atractivo a tu codicia. Este factor está oculto debido a su mera apariencia. Si dejas de escuchar sus pa...
Definición de un Sufi Para aprender, la gente debe abandonar mucho, y esto incluye el ritual como algo de lo cual imaginan que pueden aprender. Es para recalcar esto que Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, citado en Taarruf, de Kalabadhi, declara que el Sufi es “a...
El hombre y la mujer tienen una infinita capacidad para el autodesarrollo. E igualmente, tienen una infinita capacidad para la autodestrucción. Un ser humano puede estar clínicamente vivo y sin embargo, a pesar de todas las apariencias, hallarse es...
The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems. You ask me what to do about them. It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race. Face that one first.
The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?
A real secret is something which only one person knows.
