Idries Shah
Idries Shah
Idries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimiand by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 June 1924
CountryIndia
should masters not-trusting
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
daughter independence conceit
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
christian religious taken
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
taken care doe
The 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.
greed desire ifs
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
practice isolation
No practice exists in isolation.
love-is beloved sufi
He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
glasses water colour
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
trying may able
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
teacher convince-us path
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
kings fear scorpions
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
differences realizing containers
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
christian believe talking
... 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.
kindness mean exercise
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.