01c. 1960 ADReal generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.Idries Shah / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADDeep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.Idries Shah / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADSaying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.Idries Shah / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADThe real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.Idries Shah / quote ↗
08c. 1960 AD...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.Idries Shah / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADAll approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.Idries Shah / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADYou have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.Idries Shah / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADThey say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.Idries Shah / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADThe person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.Idries Shah / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADHe who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.Idries Shah / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADIt has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.Idries Shah / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADStudy institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.Idries Shah / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADThe Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.Idries Shah / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADMan (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.Idries Shah / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.Idries Shah / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADIf your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.Idries Shah / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADTo copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.Idries Shah / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADIf you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.Idries Shah / quote ↗
