One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries ShahMots clés wisdom science truth knowledge learning sufis
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Idries ShahMots clés wisdom life knowledge learning sufism process sufis
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Idries ShahMots clés wisdom truth love reality knowledge sufism sufis
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
Idries ShahMots clés wisdom truth love knowledge way sufis
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
Idries ShahMots clés wisdom life inspirational truth reality dramatic sufism sufis
Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir ShahMots clés wisdom life gossip india bombay mumbay
An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
Tahir ShahMots clés wisdom proverbs sufism folklore afghanistan saying sufis afghan
Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".
Osiri WisdomTo be a people's pleaser is a dangerous game and to be truthful makes you unpopular, which one are you gonna choose?
Euginia HerlihyMots clés wisdom
I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.
Geraldine BrooksMots clés wisdom maturity choices
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