Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Idries Shah

Tag: depth attention present-moment banal



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Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah

Tag: truth games mirrors unaware asleep



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People are always trying to understand.
There is only one way to do that.
It is to discover

Idries Shah

Tag: understanding motivations technique



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It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Idries Shah

Tag: hope opportunity chances awakening



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Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Idries Shah

Tag: friends originality enemies-and-opposition enemies-and-friends real-causes



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Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Idries Shah

Tag: honesty teaching sincerity capacity real-knowledge



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You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Idries Shah

Tag: society conditioning cycles automatic-thoughts



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Effort makes some great men famous.
Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Idries Shah

Tag: fame-and-effort-invisible



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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

Tag: optimism pessimism information-overload



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People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.
'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

Idries Shah

Tag: prejudice assumption the-root-of-things



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