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The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
— Idries Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
— Idries Shah
When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.
— Idries Shah
Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
— Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetMonkishness
No monkery in Islam. — Idries Shah
Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
Saying of the Prophet — Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
— Idries Shah
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
— Idries Shah
It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.
— Idries Shah
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
— Idries Shah
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
— Said Nursi
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
— James Dillehay
What has he found who has lost God?And what has he lost who has found God? — Ibn 'Ata'illah Al-Iskandari
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
No colour comes after black.
— Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
— Idries Shah
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
— Idries Shah
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
— Idries Shah
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
— Idries Shah
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'.
— Idries Shah
If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
— Idries Shah
What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?
— Idries Shah
Our thoughts have prepared for us thehappiness or unhappiness we experience. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
— Idries Shah
There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.
— Idries Shah
Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
— Idries Shah
Saadi's dictum, in the Bostan: 'The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe
— Idries Shah
A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird. — Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLE
It is the people who are God's family.
(Muhammad the Prophet) — Idries Shah
A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.
— Idries Shah
The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.
— Javad Nurbakhsh
You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
— Idries Shah
The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
— Idries Shah
To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough. — Idries Shah
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
— Idries Shah
Words have to die if humans are to live.
— Idries Shah
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
— Idries Shah
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path. — Idries Shah
Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.
— Idries Shah
Sufism is the essence of all religions.
— Idries Shah
When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
— Idries Shah
How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?
— Idries Shah
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
— Idries Shah
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time.
— Idries Shah
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
— 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
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
— Idries Shah
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
— Idries Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
— Idries Shah
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb — Idries Shah
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
— Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— Idries Shah
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
— Idries Shah
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.
— Idries Shah
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
— Idries Shah
Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb. — Idries Shah
You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.
— Idries Shah
No practice exists in isolation.
— Idries Shah
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. — Idries Shah
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
— Shamcher Bryn Beorse
For every Pharoah there is a Moses.
— Idries Shah
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
— Idries Shah
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
— Idries Shah
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
— Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetSleep
Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah