“… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.”
Source: The Commanding Self
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Famous Idries Shah Quotes
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Man has less than he suspects of: time, friends, hopes, qualities. Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.”
Source: Reflections
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Aprender a aprender: Decir "sí" a la vía sufi es decir "no" a las fugas imaginadas.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Se ha dicho que la "Humildad no es tanto una virtud como una necesidad a la hora de aprender".”
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
“La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad”
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Aprende acerca de las avispas, de aquéllos que han sido picados por ellas.”
Source: The Dermis Probe
Source: Reflections
Source: Reflections
Source: A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
Source: The Dermis Probe
“¿Cuántos amigos tendrías si fueras de uno en uno, pidiéndoles que escondan un cadáver?”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
Source: The Dermis Probe
Source: Reflections
Source: The Sufis
“Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Un tonto: un hombre tratando de ser honesto con los deshonestos.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Reflexiones
Source: Aprender a aprender
Source: Reflections
Source: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
“The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real”
Source: The Sufis
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Cuando la mente está llena de prejuicios establecidos, no podrá injertar al Sufismo sobre ellos.”
Source: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
“Agarra una abeja desde la amabilidad y aprenderás las limitaciones de la amabilidad.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
Source: The Way of the Sufi
Source: The World Of The Sufi
“El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertido'.”
“Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé.”
Source: The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin