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#1

“From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: ignorance, self-importance, thought, truth

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#2

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

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#3

“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: analysis, analytical-thinking, beliefs, criticism

11 likes

#4

“I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.”
― Doris Lessing

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#5

“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: knowledge, psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom

3 likes

#6

“The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe
As he does for a polished mirror for the King.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism

5 likes

#7

“From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.”
― Idries Shah, Elephant in the Dark

tags: christianity, god, islam, jesus, mohammed, muslims, submission, sufis, surrender, tolerance

3 likes

#8

“The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.”
― Idries Shah, Elephant in the Dark

tags: christianity, god, islam, jesus, mohammed, peace, religion, sufis, tolerance

3 likes

#9

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

tags: sufi, sufism

131 likes

#10

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

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#11

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

tags: awareness, history, possibility, timing

114 likes

#12

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: information-overload, optimism, pessimism

85 likes

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