Quotes from Tahir Shah

Peer into the eye of Jinn ad see your future Listen to the whispering of a Jinn and go insane. Morrocan proverb.

Never give charity if the reason is to make yourself feel better," he said. "Real charity is not selfish, but selfless." After

I never realized imagining could change reality

JUst as the mechanism be sed for war so it can be used for peace. I'st the The Fogg's familys plan to get the mechanism working and then use it for world peace;

To be valued as a member of masculine Moroccan society, a man is expected to put in his time sitting, thinking, talking, or doing nothing at all.

Just as the mechanism can be used for war so too can it be used for peace. It's the Fogg family's plan to get the machine working and then use it towards world peace.

When you arrive at the sea, you Do not talk of the tributary. Hakim Sanai F

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

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.

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path