The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
Idries ShahTag: future laziness becoming asleep rehearsal
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries ShahTag: learning essence ego sufi superficiality
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
Idries ShahTag: love sufism llumination
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Idries ShahTag: learning evolution sufism saadi-quotes sufis
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 ShahTag: wisdom science truth knowledge learning sufis
Se puede dar o rehusar de una manera mucho más efectiva, elaborada, útil, por completo invisible para las personas que piensan que dar o rehusar es un hecho producto de evaluación externa. Si buscas algún indicio de favor o “promoción”, debes saber que no estás listo. El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible. Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.
Idries ShahTag: verdad evolución aprendizaje sufis progreso
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Idries ShahTag: 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 ShahTag: 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 ShahTag: 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 ShahTag: wisdom life inspirational truth reality dramatic sufism sufis
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