Quotes from Idries Shah

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Dicho del Profeta Tinta y sangre La tinta de los sabios es más sagrada que la sangre derramada por los mártires.

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

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

Nosotros y todas nuestras existencias son no-entidades. Tú eres el ser absoluto cuya apariencia es transitoria.

The liar has a bad memory.

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

Epitafio de Jalaludin Rumi Cuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

The person who has not seen the face of trust - has seen nothing. The person who has not found contentment - has found nothing.

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

None should say: 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertido'.

Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN GURGANI: The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair