Frasi di Idries Shah

“Amore
Pensi di amare il Creatore? Ama prima il tuo prossimo.”

Caravan of Dreams

“Detto del Profeta
Riflessione
I Fedeli sono specchi, gli uni per gli altri.”

Caravan of Dreams

“Nessuno dovrebbe dire: “Posso fidarmi” o “Non posso fidarmi”, finché è padrone dell’opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.”

Caravan of Dreams

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Reflections

“Distribuzione
E’ Dio che dà, io sono solo un distributore.”

“Detto del Profeta
Oppressione
Quando c’è l’oppressione, anche l’uccello muore nel suo nido.”

Caravan of Dreams

“No te has olvidado recordar; te has recordado de olvidar, pero las personas pueden olvidarse de olvidar. Esto es tan importante como recordarse de recordar - y generalmente más práctico.
Idries Shah”

Caravan of Dreams

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“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)”

Idries Shah: Frasi in inglese

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

Idries Shah libro Caravan of Dreams

Origine: Caravan of Dreams

“One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”

Origine: Sufi Thought and Action

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

Idries Shah libro The Sufis

Origine: The Sufis

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

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

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

Idries Shah libro Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Origine: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”

Idries Shah libro The Sufis

Origine: The Sufis

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”

Idries Shah libro Seeker After Truth

Origine: Seeker After Truth

“Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.”

Origine: Sufi Thought and Action

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”

Idries Shah libro Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Origine: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”

Idries Shah libro Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Origine: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“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.”

Origine: Sufi Thought and Action

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“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!”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.”

“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”

Origine: Sufi Thought and Action

“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.”

Idries Shah libro The Sufis

Origine: The Sufis

“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”

“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

Idries Shah libro Reflections

Origine: Reflections