Quotes from Idries Shah

Nada está perdido mientras haya una sola persona para recordárnoslo.

The value of the Dwelling lies in the Dweller.

Man has less than he suspects of: time, friends, hopes, qualities. Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributary. (Hakim Sanai, The Walled Garden of Truth)

Truth is what you can learn, not what you think you must learn. It is what is there, not what you want to be there.

La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.

La valía de la Morada yace en el Morador.

Los Sufis pueden enseñar por medio de cualquier vehículo, como quiera que se llame.

Las ideologías existen únicamente donde no hay conocimiento absoluto. Si sabes algo, no tienes que creerlo o dejar de creerlo…

There is a translation of a Persian book into English, not from Persian, but from a French translation of an Urdu rendering of a classical Persian abridgment of an Arabic original.

Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta con un poquito de avaricia.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.

Circunspección. El propósito original de cultivar la circunspección es que eventualmente uno no necesite tener circunspección. #Sufismo

The seed of Sufism was sown in the time of Adam, germed in the time of Noah, budded in the time of Abraham, began to develop in the time of Moses, reached maturity in the time of Jesus, produced pure wine in the time of Mohammad.

Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. 'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?' 'In my own house.' 'Then why are you looking here?' 'There is more light here than inside my own house.

Sufi is the name for the Realised Human Being.

Was it that bureaucracy, taken to extremes, became oppression? Or that oppression needed the fiction of legality, a craving for the respectability that it could never have?

If you insist on buying poor food, you must be prepared to dislike it at the serving.

Sufi" es un nombre para el ser humano realizado.

El ruiseñor que no puede tolerar la espina, es mejor que nunca hable de la rosa.

La aspereza de un maestro es mejor que la supuesta ternura de un padre.

All'usignolo che non sappia tollerare la spina è meglio non parlare mai della rosa.

The breakup of the old order in the Near East, according to Sufi tradition, reunited the 'beads of mercury' which were the esoteric schools operating in the Egyptian, Persian and Byzantine empires into the 'stream of quicksilver' which was intrinsic, evolutionary Sufism. The