Quotes from Idries Shah

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

when you were alone, you became someone else, someone different. Someone you would rather be.

Lo que tienes que aprender es cómo encontrar lo no mundano en todo.

Voz en la noche Anoche, una voz me susurró: "¡No existe tal cosa como una voz susurrando en la noche!

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla".

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Brotherhood" to the more civilised is connected with training and identity of interest.' Man

Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

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

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Adherent: Someone who will believe anything except what he should.