Voice in the night
A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
Tags: wisdom truth illusion sufism sufis
If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
Idries ShahTags: sufism reflections sufis
They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.
Idries ShahTags: fear life death religion mind sufism sufis
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom knowledge sufism sufis
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
(Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)
Tags: learning mind psychology sufism sufis
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 ShahTags: life consciousness death will psychology evolution sufism sufis
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth
Thandiwe NewtonTags: psychology sufism
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom truth learning evolution sufism sufis
Wisdom
Sufian said:
'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
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