1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

Mediation – Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, ’one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the “veils” which have to be dissolved in the mind.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured’.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia.

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn’t got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

Man is the microcosm, creation the macrocosm – the unity. All comes from One.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all.” Ibn Arabi.