“ Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all. Idries Shah
“ Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens? Idries Shah
“ ...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. Idries Shah
“ Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. Idries Shah
“ Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed. Idries Shah
“ Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. Idries Shah
“ From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins. Idries Shah
“ Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible. Idries Shah
“ Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. Idries Shah
“ Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. Idries Shah
“ Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. Idries Shah
“ Ali, Son of the Father of the SeekerAli said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be righ… Idries Shah
“ When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. Idries Shah
“ The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. Idries Shah
