ANDREI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT HAMAN, MAYAN, KHAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

— Idries Shah

And Rum tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

— Idries Shah

And there are many people, both Mosley and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God another principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

— Idries Shah

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man

— Idries Shah

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohar)

— Idries Shah

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

— Idries Shah

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

— Idries Shah

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

— Idries Shah

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

— Idries Shah

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufi's) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

— Idries Shah