As Ibn Arab says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.

— Idries Shah

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

— Idries Shah

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Swahili)

— Idries Shah

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hill, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

— Idries Shah

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

— Idries Shah

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. March Karachi of Khoisan

— Idries Shah

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

— Idries Shah

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

— Idries Shah

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

— Idries Shah

As with any other specialization, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

— Idries Shah