Quotes by Idries Shah

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.
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Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

Idries Shah

Me llamas descreído (...) te llamaré verdadero creyente, pues el mejor contrapunto de una mentira es otra de igual magnitud.

Idries Shah

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

Idries Shah

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Idries Shah

Dicho del Profeta Dormir El sueño es el hermano de la muerte.

Idries Shah

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

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Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach me – now.' The Fakir touched the Mulla's forehead, a...

Idries Shah

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Idries Shah

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Idries Shah

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

Idries Shah

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Idries Shah

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

Idries Shah

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Idries Shah

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 Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

Idries Shah

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Idries Shah

Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

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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 standar...

Idries Shah

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Idries Shah

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Idries Shah

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Idries Shah

Author Bio

  • NameIdries Shah
  • DescriptionWriter and Sufi teacher
  • BornJune 16, 1924
  • DiedNovember 23, 1996
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter