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Her once twinkling green eyes set deep into the pale features looked as if they were the only ghastly crystal barriers between strangers and her soul. — Paullina Simons

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive. — Idries Shah

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. — Idries Shah

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens? — Idries Shah

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city. — Wole Soyinka

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. — Idries Shah

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room. — Idries Shah

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure. — Idries Shah

Sufism is known by means of itself. — Idries Shah

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

But now she wasn't sure if she could concentrate on a subject as irrelevant to her life as Sufism and a time as distant as the thirteenth century. — Elif Shafak

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. — Idries Shah

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life — Idries Shah

Don't even fucking think about it."
... "I don't know what you're talking about
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"Do not make me grab your hard-one to prove my point — J.R. Ward

He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion. — Soroosh Shahrivar

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot. — Idries Shah

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. — Idries Shah

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life. — Idries Shah

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. — Idries Shah

I'm a romantic slob! — Willie Nelson

Saadi's dictum, in the Bostan: 'The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe — Idries Shah

Self-plagiarism is style. — Alfred Hitchcock

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction. — Idries Shah

Selfishness keeps man blind through life. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living. — Idries Shah

Sufism is experiential — Idries Shah

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. — Idries Shah

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. — Idries Shah

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised. — Idries Shah

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means. — Idries Shah

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime. — Michael King

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! — Idries Shah

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight. — Valerie Bertinelli

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet. — Idries Shah

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle. — Naguib Mahfouz

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew. — Idries Shah

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. — Robert Gottlieb