Quotes from Idries Shah

El intelecto no es soberano: el conocimiento lo es.

Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

Saadi en su Bostán: "El Sendero no se encuentra en el rosario, la alfombra de oración y el manto".

At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

Un perro amarillo es hermano del chacal.

Ante Su puerta,¿cuál es la diferencia entre musulmán y cristiano, virtuoso y culpable?Ante su puerta todos son buscadores,y Él es el buscado

Dicho del Profeta Monacato No hay monjes en el Islam.

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Ten la naturaleza de un derviche; entonces usa con un gorro elegante.

What the self-imagined mystic seeks only in his meditation is visible to the Sufi on every street corner and in every alleyway

Saadi: Sé un verdadero renunciador (zahid) e incluso podrás usar raso.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect. In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Adepto: alguien que creerá cualquier cosa excepto lo que debería.

Lo que el autoimaginado místico busca sólo en su meditación, es visible para el Sufi en cada esquina y cada callejuela.

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

El hombre que sabe debe desempeñar una función. El que no sabe, no puede atribuirse una a sí mismo; sólo puede tratar de hacerlo.

Por qué la gente siempre pregunta si los libros son buenos, sin preguntarse si están en condiciones de beneficiarse de ellos?

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.

If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.

Quienquiera que me haya enseñado una letra me ha hecho su esclavo.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.