01UndatedIt is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.Idries Shah / quote ↗
02UndatedMan (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.Idries Shah / quote ↗
03UndatedI am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.Idries Shah / quote ↗
04UndatedThe basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.Idries Shah / quote ↗
05UndatedCertain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.Idries Shah / quote ↗
08UndatedHumility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.Idries Shah / quote ↗
11UndatedDisappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.Idries Shah / quote ↗
12UndatedA Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.Idries Shah / quote ↗
13UndatedDo not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.Idries Shah / quote ↗
14UndatedEXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.Idries Shah / quote ↗
15UndatedYou must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.Idries Shah / quote ↗
16UndatedThere is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.Idries Shah / quote ↗
18UndatedLife: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.Idries Shah / quote ↗
19UndatedIn the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.Idries Shah / quote ↗
20UndatedThe happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.Idries Shah / quote ↗
21UndatedTo bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.Idries Shah / quote ↗
24UndatedThe process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.Idries Shah / quote ↗
