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
people matter tasks
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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.
age laziness rehearsal
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
people secret
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
wise men thinking
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
sorry safe alternatives
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
thinking people pessimism
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
hate enemy want
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
thinking assessment giving
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
mean thinking adrift
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
teacher convince-us path
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
men doe admiration
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
trying may able
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.