Idries Shah
Idries Shah
Idries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimiand by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 June 1924
CountryIndia
Idries Shah quotes about
healing people teens
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
remembers-you remember-you people
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
people secret
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
people matter tasks
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
thinking people pessimism
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
struggle ideas people
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
play people toys
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
people significant happened
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
people desire common
It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.
people needs information
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
people imagine dramatic
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
hard-work people effort
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
believe past people
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
people information opinion
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.