01c. 1960 ADHow many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?Idries Shah / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADThe door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.Idries Shah / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADDefinitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.Idries Shah / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADDefinitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.Idries Shah / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADDefinitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.Idries Shah / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.Idries Shah / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADPoor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)Idries Shah / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.Idries Shah / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.Idries Shah / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADSaying 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.Idries Shah / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADWhat you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.Idries Shah / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADIn the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.Idries Shah / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADThe barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.Idries Shah / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADA Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.Idries Shah / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADSufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.Idries Shah / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADNone should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.Idries Shah / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADThe lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!Idries Shah / quote ↗
