1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life.

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

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe.

Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied – or think that they have been denied – something.

What the self-imagined mystic seeks only in his meditation is visible to the Sufi on every street corner and in every alleyway.

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.