Quotes by : Idries Shah

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand....

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the....

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of....

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for....

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.