Kevan Bowkett

“You cannot learn more until you can learn more.”
― Idries Shah, The Commanding Self

“Die before your Death...’ IT IS ALSO narrated that once Moulana said to his son: ‘If the people ask you what is your Path, then reply “My Path is to eat very little, nay, my Path is ‘to die’, that is, to be annihilated into the radiance of the Divine”.’ And then he related a story of a Dervish who, approaching a house, asked for some water to drink. A very beautiful girl appeared at the door and handed an empty utensil to the man; but the dervish said: ‘I want some water to drink.’ The girl asked him to go away, saying, ‘I have given you your reply, for a Dervish is not one who eats the whole day and sleeps the whole night; but the real pious one is he who sleeps hungry many a night and eats nothing during the day.’ Another Persian sage has said: ‘Eating is to preserve life, not living only to eat and yet eat more.’ Moulana said that the Dervish, after that encounter with the girl, never ate during the day until his last hour.”
― Idries Shah, The Hundred Tales of Wisdom

“The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way