01c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.Idries Shah / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.Idries Shah / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.Idries Shah / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADTreat 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.Idries Shah / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADWhen people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.Idries Shah / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADIt is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?Idries Shah / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADIf you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.Idries Shah / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADWhoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.Idries Shah / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADGreat men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.Idries Shah / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADThe major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.Idries Shah / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADA Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of KhorasanIdries Shah / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADThat which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).Idries Shah / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADAll forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.Idries Shah / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADCareful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.Idries Shah / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADIf, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.Idries Shah / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADLike the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literatureIdries Shah / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADEnlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.Idries Shah / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADSandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.Idries Shah / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADPeople who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.Idries Shah / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADStagesFirst I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong.What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone.(Ardabili)Idries Shah / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADWhen the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.Idries Shah / quote ↗
