Seeker After Truth Quotes

“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: A Handbook

“Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“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: A Handbook

“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: A Handbook

“But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre?
R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.”
― Idries Shah, El buscador de la verdad

“Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“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 Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“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: A Handbook

“The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“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: A Handbook

“Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“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: A Handbook

“Es la experiencia lo que enseña, no la controversia basada en una supuesta lógica y en suposiciones de lo que puede ser verdad.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“El Sufismo es educación, ya que tiene un corpus de conocimiento que transmite a aquellos que no lo tienen.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“La ciencia deteriorada es un culto, así como el Sufismo deteriorado o imitativo.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook