38 Quotes About Idries-shah

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it.

Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn Mahsud, the Sufi).

If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.

Si no te reprochas a ti mismo”, dice Saadi, “no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…