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Category: Idries Shah

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

play, reality, toys

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

information, information-overload

The proverb says that ‘The answer to a fool is silence’. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

fool, silence, wisdom

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:’Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

ignorance, self-importance, thought, truth

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

ignorance, sufi-quote, sufis, sufism, wisdom

Teach honesty by all means – you do know what it is, don’t you?

capacity, honesty, real-knowledge, sincerity, teaching

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

honesty, knowledge, mulla-do-piaza, sufis, sufism, wisdom

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

behaviour, ethics, islam, morality, muhammad, religion, slumber, sufis, sufism

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

attention, knowledge, thinking

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

essential, secrets, self-awareness, transcendance

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one’s own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

evolution, experience, knowledge, sufism, wisdom

There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

experience, knowledge, persian, saying, sufi, sufis, sufism, wisdom