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The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
— Idries Shah
Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.
— Idries Shah
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
— Tahir Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
— Idries Shah
Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
— Idries Shah
When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.
— Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet
Monkishness
No monkery in Islam. — Idries Shah
Monkishness
No monkery in Islam. — Idries Shah
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
— Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
— Idries Shah
It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.
— Idries Shah
The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them.
— Murad S. Shah
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
— Shah Moazzem
I talk to Allah, I pray to him.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love
— Amrita Pritam
Our aid is work for the American people.
— Rajiv Shah
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. — Idries Shah
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. — Idries Shah
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
— Idries Shah
No practice exists in isolation.
— Idries Shah
You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.
— Idries Shah
Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.
— Idries Shah
Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.
Proverb. — Idries Shah
Proverb. — Idries Shah
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
— Tahir Shah
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
— Idries Shah
No colour comes after black.
— Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
— Idries Shah
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
— Idries Shah
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
— Idries Shah
If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
— 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
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'.
— Idries Shah
I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
— Shah Rukh Khan
There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.
— Idries Shah
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
— Shah Rukh Khan
My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.
— Tahir Shah
What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?
— Idries Shah
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
— Idries Shah
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time.
— Idries Shah
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
— Idries Shah
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
— Idries Shah
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
— Idries Shah
Exploration is a dirty game.
— Tahir Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
— Idries Shah
I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.
Proverb — Idries Shah
Proverb — Idries Shah
Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.
— Murad S. Shah
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
— Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— Idries Shah
Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
— Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet
Sleep
Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah
Sleep
Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah
When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.
— Idries Shah
I think love can happen at any age ... it has no age.
— Shah Rukh Khan
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. — Idries Shah
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. — Idries Shah
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
— Idries Shah
Eyes are brave. They speak the truth when the lips lie.
— Sabine Shah
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
— Idries Shah
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
— Tahir Shah
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
— Idries Shah
For every Pharoah there is a Moses.
— Idries Shah
Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.
— Idries Shah
I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Sufism is the essence of all religions.
— Idries Shah
When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
— Idries Shah
How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?
— Idries Shah