1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows – it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained.

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: ‘What did you do that?’ Junaid said: ‘I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ’when the generous promise, they perform.

Enlightenment must come little by little – otherwise it would overwhelm.

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertida’.