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Idries Shah Quotes

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons Picture Quote #1
Talking about straws and camels’ backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken Picture Quote #1
When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? Picture Quote #1
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead Picture Quote #1
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation Picture Quote #1
Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi) Picture Quote #1
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In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished Picture Quote #1
In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil’s face Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon Picture Quote #1
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love Picture Quote #1
They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive Picture Quote #1
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HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning Picture Quote #1
When the human being says:’It is not true...’He may mean:’I don’t know about it, so I think it is untrue.’Or:’I don’t like it Picture Quote #1
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being Picture Quote #1
Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf Picture Quote #1
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis’ own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning Picture Quote #1
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before Picture Quote #1
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There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression Picture Quote #1
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge Picture Quote #1
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed Picture Quote #1
The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not Picture Quote #1
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE) Picture Quote #1
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development Picture Quote #1
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Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong Picture Quote #1
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality Picture Quote #1
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble Picture Quote #1
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something Picture Quote #1
To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves Picture Quote #1
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody’s friend Picture Quote #1
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons  (Idries Shah Quotes) Talking about straws and camels’ backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken  (Idries Shah Quotes) When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?  (Idries Shah Quotes) Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead  (Idries Shah Quotes) Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation  (Idries Shah Quotes) Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)  (Idries Shah Quotes) In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished  (Idries Shah Quotes) In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil’s face  (Idries Shah Quotes) 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 Quotes) To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.  (Idries Shah Quotes) The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.  (Idries Shah Quotes) They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.  (Idries Shah Quotes) HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.  (Idries Shah Quotes) When the human being says:’It is not true...’He may mean:’I don’t know about it, so I think it is untrue.’Or:’I don’t like it.  (Idries Shah Quotes) Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being  (Idries Shah Quotes) Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf  (Idries Shah Quotes) Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis’ own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.  (Idries Shah Quotes) An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.  (Idries Shah Quotes) There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.  (Idries Shah Quotes) When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge  (Idries Shah Quotes) It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.  (Idries Shah Quotes) The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.  (Idries Shah Quotes) ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE)  (Idries Shah Quotes) A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.  (Idries Shah Quotes) Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.  (Idries Shah Quotes) The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.  (Idries Shah Quotes) Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble  (Idries Shah Quotes) Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.  (Idries Shah Quotes) To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves  (Idries Shah Quotes) You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody’s friend.  (Idries Shah Quotes)
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