“ The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep. Idries Shah
“ Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. Idries Shah
“ Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. Idries Shah
“ Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. Idries Shah
“ Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee. Idries Shah
“ When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. Idries Shah
“ Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. Idries Shah
“ Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. Idries Shah
“ The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds Idries Shah
“ Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. Idries Shah
“ When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration. Idries Shah
“ THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili) Idries Shah
“ The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. Idries Shah
