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From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins. (Idries Shah Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger. (Idries Shah Quotes)
Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel (Idries Shah Quotes)
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. (Idries Shah Quotes)
The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again (Idries Shah Quotes)
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete (Idries Shah Quotes)
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean (Idries Shah Quotes)
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts (Idries Shah Quotes)
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information (Idries Shah Quotes)
A real secret is something which only one person knows (Idries Shah Quotes)
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you (Idries Shah Quotes)
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information (Idries Shah Quotes)
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them (Idries Shah Quotes)
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age (Idries Shah Quotes)
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress (Idries Shah Quotes)
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge (Idries Shah Quotes)
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous (Idries Shah Quotes)
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress (Idries Shah Quotes)
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it (Idries Shah Quotes)
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end (Idries Shah Quotes)
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening (Idries Shah Quotes)
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions (Idries Shah Quotes)
No practice exists in isolation (Idries Shah Quotes)
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken (Idries Shah Quotes)
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person’s beliefs at the time (Idries Shah Quotes)
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious (Idries Shah Quotes)
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day (Idries Shah Quotes)
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 (Idries Shah Quotes)
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well (Idries Shah Quotes)