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Seeker After Truth QUOTES

Seeker After Truth QUOTES

1 " Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

2 " If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

3 " Worry is a cloud which rains destruction. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

4 " Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens? "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

5 " One should not pray if that prayer is vanity. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

6 " Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

7 " Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

8 " Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

9 " The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

10 " The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

11 " But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

12 " Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

13 " Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

14 " Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

15 " A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

16 " Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

17 " Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

18 " Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

19 " It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth

20 " Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it. "

― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth