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Idries Shah Quotes|Quotes said by Idries Shah

  • Idries Shah Quote #1

    ...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

  • Idries Shah Quote #2

    ...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

  • Idries Shah Quote #3

    ...muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

  • Idries Shah Quote #4

    … de hecho la acción es conocimiento en operación. La acción correcta proviene del conocimiento correcto.Este es adquirido a través del maestro.

  • Idries Shah Quote #5

    … the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

  • Idries Shah Quote #6

    … when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

  • Idries Shah Quote #7

    …la actitud Sufi es: “Que la auténtica verdad, cualquiera que fuere, me sea revelada

  • Idries Shah Quote #8

    ¿Cuántos amigos tendrías si fueras de uno en uno, pidiéndoles que escondan un cadáver?

  • Idries Shah Quote #9

    ¿Por qué hice tal y cual cosa? está muy bien. Pero qué hay con ¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?.

  • Idries Shah Quote #10

    ¿Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

  • Idries Shah Quote #11

    ¿Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

  • Idries Shah Quote #12

    A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

  • Idries Shah Quote #13

    A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

  • Idries Shah Quote #14

    A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

  • Idries Shah Quote #15

    A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

  • Idries Shah Quote #16

    A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

  • Idries Shah Quote #17

    A lo único que debería odiarse es al odio.

  • Idries Shah Quote #18

    A loan is the scissors of friendship.
    A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
    The cage has no value without the bird.

  • Idries Shah Quote #19

    A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.
    'Why?' someone asked him.
    'To squeeze out the rain.

  • Idries Shah Quote #20

    A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.

  • Idries Shah Quote #21

    A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

  • Idries Shah Quote #22

    A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.

  • Idries Shah Quote #23

    A pesar de lo rápido que corras, o lo hábil que seas, no podrás huir de tus propios pies

  • Idries Shah Quote #24

    A real secret is something which only one person knows.

  • Idries Shah Quote #25

    A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

  • Idries Shah Quote #26

    A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

  • Idries Shah Quote #27

    A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

  • Idries Shah Quote #28

    A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

  • Idries Shah Quote #29

    A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

  • Idries Shah Quote #30

    Abu-Yaqub al-Susi declara que el Sufi es “alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

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