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
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!
thinking people pessimism
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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.
thinking interesting boredom
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
spiritual school thinking
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
thinking moments truth-is
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
educational thinking goal
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
thinking enemy originality
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
thinking meditation might
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
thinking tomorrow
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
stupid men thinking
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
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.