01c. 1960 ADThe proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.Idries Shah / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADYou will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.Idries Shah / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADSufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.Idries Shah / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADDeteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.Idries Shah / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADMuch religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.Idries Shah / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADWe and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.Idries Shah / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADSufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.Idries Shah / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADThe practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,Idries Shah / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADThe degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.Idries Shah / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADSufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.Idries Shah / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).Idries Shah / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADAn old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)Idries Shah / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADIf you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.Idries Shah / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADPeople talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.Idries Shah / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADThe Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.Idries Shah / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADYou may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of BokharaIdries Shah / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADDefinitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.Idries Shah / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.Idries Shah / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.Idries Shah / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADThe donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.Idries Shah / quote ↗
