Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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Famous Idries Shah Quotes
Source: The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the Sufis
Source: Reflections
“When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.”
Source: The Book of the Book
Source: Reflections
“Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.”
Source: Reflections
“The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.”
Source: Reflections
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.”
Source: Reflections
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
Source: The Sufis
“The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Reflections
Source: Reflections
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
Source: Thinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
“Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.”
Source: The Commanding Self
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: The Sufis
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: A Perfumed Scorpion
“The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.”
Source: The World of the Sufi: an anthology of writings about Sufis and their work
Source: Reflections